Oberonia crassilabris Schltr. 1911 SUBGENUS Apotemnophyllum SECTION Aphananthos Schlechter Type Drawing by © Schlechter and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

Part Shade Hot LATEFall EARLYWinter

Common Name The Hidden Oberonia [refers to the long-bearded bracts that completely cover and conceal even the fully developed small flowers]

Flower Size

Found in New Guinea at elevations around 450 meters as a miniature sized, hot growing epiphyte with a very short rhizome giving rise to a very short stem carrying 4 to 6, erect to suberect, subfalcate-oblique, lanceolate-ligulate, acute leaves that blooms in the late fall and early winter on an erect, thin, 4.4" [11 cm] long, densely many flowered inflorescence with erect-patent, imbricate, lanceolate, acute, irregular margin, glabrous, longer than the flowers floral bracts.

Schlechter states that the flowers are yellowish white.

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Orchidaceae of German New Guinea Schlechter 1911 Drawing fide; The Orchids of The High Mountains of New Guinea Royen 1979

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