Oberonia langbianensis Gagnep. 1932 SUBGENUS Oberonia

Photo by © Li Jianwu

Another Orchid Photo by http://www.doonokthai.lannabird.org/

Drawing

Drawing by © Seidenfaden

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Common Name or Meaning The Lang Bian Oberonia [A town In Vietnam]

Flower Size .08" [2 mm]

Found in Yunnan province of China, Thailand and Vietnam at elevations of 1500 to 2100 meters as a small sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte with a short stem carrying several, equitant, linear, oval in cross section, acute leaves that blooms in the later spring and early summer on a pendant, to 6" [15 cm] long, cylindrical, densely many flowered inflorescence

Synonyms Oberonia dalatensis Gagnep. 1932

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Dansk Botanisk Arkiv Bind 33 nr 1 Orchids of Thailand VII Oberonia & Malaxis Seidenfaden 1978 drawing fide; Identification of the Orchids [Orchidaceae Juss.] Vietnam Averyanov 1994 as O dalatensis; Identification of the Orchids [Orchidaceae Juss.] Vietnam Averyanov 1994; Taiwania 52: 302 Averyanov 2007; The Wild Orchids in Yunnan Xu Xiang Ye & Liu 2010 photos ok; Atlas of Native Orchids of China Vol 2 Jin Xiaohua, Li Jianwu and Ye Deping 2019 photo fide;

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