Oberonia kanburiensis Seidenf. 1973 SECTION Apotemnophyllum
Photo by © Li Yuling
TYPE Drawing by © Seidenfaden and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
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Common Name The Kanburi Oberonia [A town in Thailand]
Flower Size .08" [2 mm]
Found in the Chinese Himalayas and Thailand in forests at elevations around 1700 meters as a mini-minature sized, cool growing epiphyte with a very short stem enveloped by linear-lanceolate, acute, conduplicate base leaves that blooms in the later summer on an erect, terminal, 2.4 to 4" " [6 to 10 cm] long, many flowered inflorescence with irregularily fringed floral bracts and carrying ocher yellow flowers with a lighter yellow petals.
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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Dansk Botanisk Arkiv Bind 33 nr 1 Orchids of Thailand VII Oberonia & Malaxis Seidenfaden 1978 drawing fide; Atlas of Native Orchids of China Vol 2 Jin Xiaohua, Li Jianwu and Ye Deping 2019 photo fide;
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