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

EARLY

Common Name The Papillose Oberonia [refers to the externally papillose sepals and bracts]

Flower Size

Found in New Guinea at elevations around 1300 meters as a mini-miniature to miniature sized, laxly pendent, cool growing epiphyte with a short rhizome giving rise to a flexuous, leafy stem carrying 5 to 6, erect-patent to suberect, falcate, lanceolate-ligulate, acute leaves that blooms in the early summer on a .8" [2 cm] long, sublaxly to 15 flowered inflorescence with ovate-lanceolate, apiculate, dorsally carinate, dentate margins, externally papillose, shorter than the ovary floral bracts.

Schlechter states that the flowers are green-yellow and the sepals are externally papillose.

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Orchidaceae of German New Guinea Schlechter 1911 Drawing fide; The Orchids of The High Mountains of New Guinea Royen 1979;

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