Oberonia rufilabris Lindl.1838 SUBGENUS Menophyllum
Photo by © Peter O'Byrne and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
Photos by © Milan Vagner
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Common Name The Fox-Red Lip Oberonia - In China Hong Chun Yuan Wei Lan
Flower Size .08" [1.8 mm]
Found in India, Bangladesh, eastern Himalayas, Assam, Nepal, Cambodia, Thailand, Malaysia China and Vietnam on trees in forests at elevations of 300 to 1900 meters as a mini-miniature sized, hot to cool growing epiphyte with a short stem carrying 3 to 4, curved, obtuse to blunt apically leaves that blooms in the late fall and winter on an erect to arching, 4" [10 cm] long, densely many flowered inflorescence with a few narrow bracts and with the apical, rather distant, dark reddish brown, verticillate flowers opening first.
Synonyms Iridorkis rufilabris (Lindl.) Kuntze 1891; Malaxis rufilabris (Lindl.) Rchb.f. 1861; Oberonia neotixieri Guillaumin 1963; Oberonia pantlingiana L.R.Shakya & R.P.Chaudhary 1999; Oberonia pulchrebracteata Tixier & Guillaumin 1963; Oberonia tiomanensis M.R.Hend. 1930
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Orchids of Burma Grant 1895/1995; The Orchids of Sikkim-Himalaya Part 1 King & Pantling 1898 drawing fide; Studies in the Family Orchidaceae Vol 1 Ames 1905 not = O thisbe; Flora of Malaya Vol 1 Holttum 1957 as O tiomanensis drawing fide; The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitinand 1959 drawing fide; The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitinand 1965 corrections; Dansk Botanisk Arkiv Bind 33 nr 1 Orchids of Thailand VII Oberonia & Malaxis Seidenfaden 1978 drawing fide;Indian Orchids: A Guide to Identification and Culture Vol 2 Pradhan 1979 Drawing fide; Orchid Monographs Vol 4 Ansari & Balakrishnan 1990 drawing fide/photo fide; The Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia and Singapore Seidenfaden & Wood 1992 drawing fide; Identification of the Orchids [Orchidaceae Juss.] Vietnam Averyanov 1994; Orchids of Bhutan Pearce & Cribb 2002; Orchids of India A Glimpse Misra 2007 drawing fide; Flora of China Vol 25 Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2009; Philippine Native Orchid Species Cootes 2009 photo fide; Flora of China Vol 25 Illustrations Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2010 drawing fide; The Atlas of Wild Orchids in Hainan Island, China Shenyan and Junmei 2010 photo fide; The Wild Orchids in Yunnan Xu Xiang Ye & Liu 2010 photos fide; Wild Orchids of Thailand Vol 2 Vadhanaphuti 2012 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 83 #3 2014 drawingfide; A Guide to the Orchids of Myanmar Kurzwell & Lwin 2014 photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 79 #2 2015 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 85 #5 2016 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol #9 2019 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 88 #10 2019 photo fide; Atlas of Native Orchids of China Vol 2 Jin Xiaohua, Li Jianwu and Ye Deping 2019 photo fide;
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