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

LATE EARLY

Common Name The Shaft Bearing Oberonia [refers to the peduncle]

Flower Size

Found in New Guinea at elevations around 500 meters as a miniature sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with a very short rhizome giving rise to a short, erect, densely leafy stem carrying 3 to 4, erect-patent, oblique, subfalcate, linear, acute, glabrous leaves that blooms in the late fall and early winter on a thinly pedunculated, to .6" [1.5 cm] long, rachis to 2.4" [6 cm] long, densely many flowered inflorescence with lanceolate, acuminate, glabrous, irregular margin, equal to the ovary floral bracts.

Schlechter states that the flowers are pale brown with a darker, more orange-brown lip

Synonyms

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

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