Oberonia suborbicularis Carr 1929

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Common Name The Almost Round Oberonia [refers to the petals shape]

Flower Size 5/8" [1.5mm across]

Found in Penninsular Malaysia to North Sumatra as a miniature sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with 4 to 5 oblique, almost straight lewaves that blooms in the spring on an erect, to 4" [to 10 cm] long, many flowered inflorescence with the flowers set in whorls around the inflorescence.

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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 Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia and Singapore Seidenfaden & Woods 1992 ;