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

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Common Name The Sickle-Shaped Leaved Oberonia

Flower Size

Found in New Guinea in thick moss at elevations around 1000 meters as a small sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with a short rhizome giving rise to a strict densely leafy stem carrying 5 to 8, erect to suberect, obliquely linear, acute thickly coriaceous leaves that blooms in the late spring on a 4.8" [12 cm] long, densely many flowered inflorescence with hyaline, patent, oblong-elliptic, apiculate, dorsally carinate, irregularily serrate margins, longer than the ovary floral bracts.

Schlechter states that the leaves are very thick and is a diagnostic within the section, the lip as well is very differnt and the flowers are yellowish with orange yellow towards the base anther.

Synonyms

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

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