Oberonia forcipifera Schltr. 1911 SECTION Diurium Photo courtesy of Wolfgang H. Bandisch. Photo by Peter O'Byrne Copyright © 1998, 1999 All rights reserved. And his Papua & New Guinea Orchid Species site

Common Name The Plier-Like Oberonia

Flower Size

Found in Papua New Guinea on overhanging trees along creeks in forests at elevations of 250 to 400 meters as a medium sized, hot growing epiphyte with a stem carrying 6 to 10, erect, falcate, lanceolate-ligulate, acute leaves that is best mounted to accomodate the pendant, laxly many flowered inflorescence

References W3 Tropicos [http://mobot.mobot.org/W3T/Search/vast.html] , Kew Monocot list [ http://www.kew.org/wcsp/home.do ], IPNI [ http://www.us.ipni.org/ipni/plantsearch?request_type=search&output_format=query&ret_defaults=on ] The Orchidaceae of German New Guinea Schlechter 1985

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