Oberonia serrulata 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 Lightly Toothed Oberonia [refers to the margin of the leaves]

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 stem carrying 6 to 9, suberect, free part linear-lanceolate to linear-ligulate, acute, falcate leaves that blooms in the late spring on a cylindrical, 3.6 to 6.8" [9 to 17 cm] long, densely many flowered inflorescence with patent, lanceolate to oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, carinate dorsally, irregularily subdentate margin, equal to the ovary floral bracts.

Schlechter states that the flowers are sulphur with an orange yellow ovary yellow .

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Orchidaceae of German New Guinea Schlechter 1911 Drawing fide; The Orchids of The High Mountains of New Guinea Royen 1979;

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