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

Common Name The Toothed Petal Oberonia

Flower Size

Found in New Guinea at elevations around 800 meters as a small sized, warm growing epiphyte with a short rhizome giving rise to an erect, very short, densely leafy stem carrying 4 to 5, erect-patent, linear, acute, subfalcate-oblique leaves that blooms in the fall on an elongate, suberect, to 5.2" [13 cm] long, densely many flowered inflorescence with narrowly lanceolate, acuminate, glabrous, subdentate margin, dorsally carinate, more or less equal to the ovary floral bracts.

Schlechter states that theflowers are red-brown.

Synonyms

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

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