Oberonia lunata (Blume) Lindl. 1830

Plant and Flower Photos by Peter O'Byrne Copyright ©, and the The Swiss Orchid Foundatin at the Jany Renz Herbaria

Drawing Drawing by © Seidenfaden and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

Full Shade Warm Cool Summer

Common Name The Lunate Oberonia [refers to the lip]

Flower Size .005" [1.5mm]

Found in Malaysia, Sumatra and Java in wetter montane forests at elevations of 600 to 1800 meters as a mini- miniature sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with a short stem carrying 3 to 4, spread out, linear, gradually narrowing to the acute apex leaves that blooms in the summer on an axillary, to 5" [12.5 cm] long, several flowered inflorescence

Synonyms Iridorkis lunata (Blume) Kuntze 1891; *Malaxis lunata Blume 1825;

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora of Malaya Vol 1 Holttum 1957 drawing good; The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitinand 1959; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; Orchids of Vanuatu Lewis & P Cribb 1989 as Malaxis lunata drawing fide; Orchids of Java Comber 1990; The Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia and Singapore Seidenfaden & Wood 1992 drawing ok; Orchids of Sarawak Beaman etal 2001 as O aff lunata; A to Z of South East Asian Orchid Species Vol 2 O'Byrne 2011 photo fide

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