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

Part Shade Cool Spring

Common Name The Triangular Lip Oberonia [refers to the lip shape]

Flower Size

Found in New Guinea at elevations around 1600 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cool growing epiphyte with an elongate, thin, flexuous rhizome giving rise to distant, erect, densely leafy stem carrying 8 to 10, erect-patent, obliquely lanceolate, acute to subacute, glabrous leaves that blooms in the spring on a somewhat curved, to 1" [2.5 cm] long, subdensely many flowered inflorescence with lanceolate, acute, glabrous, subdentate margin, dorsally carinate, equal to the ovary floral bracts.

Synonyms

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

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