Oberonia sarcophylla 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 Fleshy Leaved Oberonia

Flower Size

Found in New Guinea at elevations around 600 meters as a mini-miniature to miniature sized, warm growing epiphyte with a short rhizome giving rise to an erect, flexuous, densely leafy stem carrying 4 to 5, thickly fleshy, linear-falcate, acute, glabrous leaves that blooms in the spring on an arcuate, thick, always falcate, to 1.4" [3.5 cm] long, densely many flowered inflorescence with lanceolate, acuminate, glabrous, dentate margin, more or less equal to the ovary floral bracts.

Schlechter states that the flowers are brown-red.

Synonyms

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

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