Oberonia nitida Seidenf. 1971 Photos by ©, The Afri Orchids Website
Plant and Flower in situ Thailand Photos by Manorot Tangsaveepha Copyright ©, and the Butterfly and Orchids Photo Gallery
TYPE Drawing Drawing by © Seidenfaden and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
Common Name The Shimmering Oberonia
Flower Size .1" [2 mm]
Found in Thailand at elevations around 600 meters as a miniature sized, warm growing epiphyte with short stems enveloped completely by imbricating leaf sheath bases carrying laterally compressed, linear, acute leaves that blooms in the fall on a terminal, erect then arching, cylindrical, densely many flowered inflorescence.
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Botanisk Tidsskrift Bind 66 Hefte 4 Contributions to the Orchid Flora of Thailand III Seidenfaden 1971 drawing fide; Dansk Botanisk Arkiv Bind 33 nr 1 Seidenfaden 1978 drawing fide;
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