Oberonia toppingii Ames 1914
Photo by © Eric Hunt
Photo courtesy of Andy's Orchids, Copyright © 2002 All rights reserved
Common Name Topping's Oberonia [Original Collector of Species 1900's]
Flower Size .6" [1.5 cm]
Found in the Philippines at elevations below 300 meters as a miniature sized, hot growing epiphyte with a semi-pendulous stem enveloped completely by imbricating, conduplicate, lanceolate leaves that blooms on a pendant, 4" [to 10 cm] long, racemose, densely many flowered inflorescence in the fall and winter.
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchidaceae Fascile 5 Ames 1915; Orchidiana Philipiniana Vol 1 Valmayor 1984; Orchids of the Philippines Cootes 2001 photo fide; Flora Malesiana Orchids of the Philippines Vol I Agoo, Shuiteman and de Vogel 2003; AOS Bulletin Vol 88 #10 2019 photo fide;
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