Oberonia lycopodioides (J.König) Ormerod 1995

Plant and Flowers Photos courtesy of Jim Cootes, Dr. E.F. de Vogel and Jaap Vermeulen and Their Netherlands National Herbarium Website. and Flora Malesiana Vol III

Common Name or Meaning The Lycopod-Like Oberonia

Flower Size .05" [1.8mm]

Found in Cambodia, Myanamar, Thailand, Vietnam, Borneo, Java, Malaysia, Moluccas, the Philippines, and Sumatra in semi-open areas at elevations of sealevel to 150 meters as a small sized, hot growing epiphyte with a pendant stem enveloped completely by small, flattened, imbricating, conduplicate, oblique, blunt apically leaves that blooms on a terminal, sessile, to 3.4" [8.5 cm] long, densely many flowered inflorescence

Synonyms Cymbidium lycopodioides (J.König) Willd. 1805; *Epidendrum lycopodioides J.König 1791; Iridorchis anceps (Lindl.) Kuntze 1891; Malaxis anceps (Lindl.) Rchb.f. 1861; Oberonia anceps Lindl. 1838; Oberonia ancipita Náves 1880; Oberonia griffithii Wight 1851; Oberonia imbricata Wight 1851; Oberonia imbricatiflora J.J.Sm. 1914

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Orchids of Burma Grant 1895/95 as Oberonia anceps; Orchidiana Philipiniana Vol 1 Valmayor 1984 as O anceps; The Orchids of Penninsular Malaysian and Singapore Wood & Seidenfadden 1992 as O anceps; Orchids of Java Comber 1990 as O anceps; Orchids of Sumatra Comber 2001 as Oberonia anceps; Flora Malesiana Orchids of the Philippines Vol I Agoo, Shuiteman and de Vogel 2003;