Oberonia brevispica Schltr. 1911 SUBGENUS Menophyllum SECTION Otoglossum Schlechter Type Drawing by © Schlechter and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

Common Name The Short Spike Oberonia

Flower Size

Found in New Guinea at elevations around 150 meters as a mini-miniature sized, hot growing epiphyte with a conspicuously elongate rhizome giving rise to an erect, distant, short, densely leafy stem carrying 4 to 5, erect to suberect, linear, acute, somewhat falcate to subfalcate, glabrous leaves that blooms in the spring on an erect, short, to 1.4" [1.5 to 3 cm] long, densely many flowered inflorescence with lanceolate, acuminate, glabrous, lacerate-dentate margin, dorsally carinate, more or less equal to the ovary floral bracts.

Schlechter states that the flowers are dark brown-red.

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Orchidaceae of German New Guinea Schlechter 1911 Drawing fide;

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