Oberonia rosea Hook.f. 1890 SUBGENUS Menophyllum Photo by J.J. Merry © and his Flickr Photo Website

Common Name The Rose Oberonia - In China Mei Gui Yuan Wei Lan

Flower Size .06" [1.5 mm]

Found in Malaysia, Vietnam and southern Taiwan at elevations around 900 to 1250 meters in evergreen forests along streams as a miniature sized, warm growing epiphyte with a stem enveloped by leaf bases and carrying several, distichous-equitant, laterally compressed, ensiform, size variable, not articulate basally, acuminate to slightly curve-tipped leaves that blooms in the spring on an axillary, to 4" [10 cm] long, many flowered inflorescence with oblong floral bracts and [2 to 3 mm] between each whorl of flowers

CAUTION I have no way of verifying this determination as the photo does not allow minute inspection so use with caution.

Synonyms Oberonia kusukusensis Hayata 1914

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Icones 21 Hooker 1890 drawing fide; Flora of Malaya Vol 1 Holttum 1957 drawing ok;The Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia and Singapore Seidenfaden & Wood 1992 drawing ok; Identification of the Orchids [Orchidaceae Juss.] Vietnam Averyanov 1994; Flora of China Vol 25 Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2009; Flora of China Vol 25 Illustrations Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2010 drawing ok; Wild Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia Ong, O'Byrne, Yong & Saw 2011 photo ok; The Wild Orchids of Taiwan Lin & Wang 2014 photos fide

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