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

Common Name The Torricelli Range Oberonia

Flower Size

Found in New Guinea at elevations around 800 meters as a small sized, warm growing epiphyte with an elongate rhizome giving rise to an erect, distant, subflexuous, densely leafy stem carrying 9 to 13, erect-patent, subfalcate-oblique, linear, acute, glabrous leaves that blooms in the winter on an erect, short, to 2" [5 cm] long, densely many flowered inflorescence with lanceolate, acuminate, irregularily dentate margin, glabrous, granulose-papillose on the dorsal side, more or less equal to the ovary floral bracts.

Schlechter states that the flowers are pale brown.

Synonyms

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

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