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

Common Name The Broad Lip Oberonia

Flower Size

Found in New Guinea at elevations around 400 meters as a small sized, hot growing epiphyte with a very short rhizome giving rise to a short, erect, densely leafy stem carrying 3 to 5 to 5, erect-patent, ligulate, acute to subacute, falcate-oblique leaves that blooms in the fallon an erect to suberect, to to 4.4" [11 cm] long, densely many flowered inflorescence with ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, pectinate-dentate margin, exterior densely muricate-papillose, equal to the ovary floral bracts.

Schlechter states that the flowers are a very dark brown.

Synonyms

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

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