Oberonia insectifera Hook.f. 1890 SUBGENUS Menophyllum SECTION Arachnochilus
Photos by © Peter O'Byrne and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
Type Drawing From Icones 21 Hooker 1890.
LATE 
Common Name The Insect-Like Oberonia [refers to the small flowers]
Flower Size 1/20th" [.08mm]
Found in Malaysia and Borneo in primary hill forests at elevations around 200 to 400 meters as a mini-miniature sized, hot growing epiphyte with a fan of linear, acute, basally clasping leaves that blooms in the late spring on a few, axillary, 3" [7.5 cm] long, many flowered inflorescence.
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Icones 21 Hooker 1890 drawing fide; Orchidaceae of German New Guinea Schlechter 1911; Flora Of Malaya Vol 1 Holttum 1953 drawing fide; The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitnand 1959 drawing fide; The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitinand 1965 corrections; The Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia and Singapore Seidenfaden & Wood 1992 drawing fide; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994; Orchids of Sarawak Beaman etal 2001 as O aff griffithiana
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