Oberonia miniata Lindl. 1843
Photo by © Jeffery Champion.
Photo by © Saw Leng Guan and the The Biological Diversity Clearing House Website
Drawing Drawing by © Seidenfaden and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
Common Name The Rust Red Oberonia
Flower Size .24" [6 mm]
Found in Thailand and penninsular Malaysia, Java, Sumatra and Borneo in lowland forests as a small sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with a stem enveloped completely by imbricate, leaf-bearing sheaths and carrying very oblique, acute, upper edge nearly straight, outer edge incurved towards the tip leaves that blooms on an axillary, 4 to 8" [10 to 20 cm] long, densely many flowered inflorescence carrying the flowers in rather irregular whorls
Synonyms Iridorkis miniata (Lindl.) Kuntze 1891; Malaxis miniata (Lindl.) Rchb.f. 1861; Oberonia discolor J.J.Sm. 1917; Oberonia rolfeana King & Pantl. 1897;
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchidaceae Fascile 5 Ames 1915; Flora of Malaya Vol 1 Holttum 1957 drawing ok; Dansk Botanisk Arkiv Bind 33 nr 1 Seidenfaden 1978 drawing fide; Orchids of Java Comber 1990; The Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia and Singapore Seidenfaden & Wood 1992 drawing fide; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994; Orchids of Sumatra Comber 2001; Wild Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia Ong, O'Byrne, Yong & Saw 2011 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 88 #6 2019 photo fide;
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