Oberonia ciliolata Hook.f. 1894 SUBGENUS Menophyllum

Plant and Inflorescence

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

Common Name The Cilate Oberonia

Flower Size

Found in Thailand, penninsular Malaysia, Java, Sumatra and Borneo in hill forests at elevations of sea level to 1000 meters as a miniature sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with erect stems carrying 12 to 14, conduplicate, acute leaves held in a fan that blooms in the fall on a 4 to 4.8" [10 to 12 cm] long, many flowered inflorescence

Synonyms Oberonia lampongensis J.J.Sm. 1917

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora of Malaya Vol 1 Holttum 1957 drawing good; Dansk Botanisk Arkiv Bind 33 nr 1 Orchids of Thailand VII Oberonia & Malaxis Seidenfaden 1978; Orchids of Java Comber 1990 photo fide; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1991; The Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia and Singapore Seidenfaden and Wood 1992 drawing fide; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994; Orchids of Sumatra Comber 2001 photo fide; A to Z of South East Asian Orchid Species Vol 1 O'Byrne 2001 photo fideOrchids of Sarawak Beaman, Wood & Beaman etal 2001; The Orchids of Mount Kinabalu Vol 1 Wood, Beaman, Lamb, Chu Lun and Beaman 2011 photo ok; The Orchids of Mount Kinabalu Vol 2 Wood, Beaman, Lamb, Chu Lun and Beaman 2011

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