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

Common Name The Cordate Oberonia [refers to the heart-shaped lip]

Flower Size

Found in New Guinea in thick moss at elevations around 1000 meters as a small sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with a short rhizome giving rise to a somewhat flexuous stem carrying 7 to 10, erect-patent to suberect,free part linear-ligulate, acute leaves that blooms in the spring on a cylindrical, densely many flowered inflorescence with patent, lanceolate, acute to acuminate, carinate dorsally, subdentate margin, hyaline, eqaul to the ovary floral bracts.

Schlechter states that the flowers are yellow .

Synonyms

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

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