Oberonia bertoldii King & Pantl. 1897

leaves and Inflorescence Photos by © Peter O'Byrne and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

Common Name Berthold's Oberonia

Flower Size very small

Found in penninsular Malaysia in lowland forests as a miniature sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with a short stem enveloped completely by 6, imbricating, unequal, nearly straight, linear-oblong, acute, conduplicate, basally clasping leaves that blooms in the spring on a terminal, erect, peduncle to 1" [2.5 cm] long, 2.8 to 6" [7 to 15 cm] long overall, laxly many flowered inflorescence with the lower flowers crowded, the upper flowers held in a whorl, all very small and tomato red.

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora of Malaya Vol 1 Holttum 1957 drawing fide; The Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia and Singapore Seidenfaden & Wood 1992 drawing fide;

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