Oberonia brachystachys Lindl. 1838 SUBGENUS Menophyllum Photo by © Tripetch P.

Drawing Drawing by © Seidenfaden and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

Common Name The Short Scape Oberonia

Flower Size .05" [2 mm]

Found in the eastern Himalayas, Myanmar, Thailand and Malaysia in tropical valleys at lower elevations around 450 meters as a mini-miniature sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with a very short stem carrying, in a fan, 3 to 4, acute, nearly straight leaves that blooms in the summer on an axillary, longer than the leaf, short scape, 2" [5 cm] long, many flowered inflorescence with whorls of close set flowers.

Synonyms Iridorkis brachystachya (Lindl.) Kuntze 1891; Iridorkis demissa (Lindl.) Kuntze 1891; Malaxis demissa (Lindl.) Rchb.f. 1861; Oberonia bambusicola Kerr 1927; Oberonia demissa Lindl. 1859

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Orchids of Sikkim-Himalaya Part 1 King & Pantling 1898 as O dimissa drawing hmm; Flora of Malaya Vol 1 Holttum 1957 as O demissa drawing fide; The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitnand 1959 as O bambusifolia [sic]; The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitnand 1959 as O demissa; The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitinand 1965 corrections as O bambusicola; Indian Orchids, A Guide to Identification and Culture Vol 2 Pradhan 1979 Drawing fide; Dansk Botanisk Arkiv Bind 33 nr 1 Orchids of Thailand VII Oberonia & Malaxis Seidenfaden 1978 drawing fide;The Orchids of The High Mountains of New Guinea Royen 1979; Orchid Monographs Vol 4 Ansari & Balakrishnan 1990 drawing fide/photo not ?; The Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia and Singapore Seidenfaden & Wood 1992 drawing fide; Orchids of Bhutan Pearce & Cribb 2002; Orchids of India A Glimpse Misra 2007; Wild Orchids of Thailand Vol 2 Vadhanaphuti 2012 photo hmm

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