Oberonia brunoniana Wight 1851

Plant and Flowers in situ India

Drawing

Drawing by © Seidenfaden and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

Part Shade Warm Cold Summer EARLIER Fall

Common Name Brown's Oberonia [Scottish Scientist and Collector in SE Asia late 1700-1800's]

Flower Size .083" [2.75 mm]

Found in India in semi evergrteen forests in shade at elevations of 800 to 2200 meters as a small sized, warm to cold growing epiphyte with a stem enveloped completely by imbricating leaf sheath bases carrying articulate at the base, fleshy, brown to purplish, oblong-ensiform, narrowing at the middle to the apex, acute leaves that blooms in the summer and earlier fall on a terminal, erect, flattened peduncle adnate to the uppermost leaf, to 6.4" [16 cm] long, rachis to 6.4" [16 cm] long, densely many flowered inflorescence carrying verticillate, pale greenish yellow to brick red flowers.

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Indian Orchids, A Guide to Identification and Culture Vol 2 Pradhan 1979 Drawing fide; Orchids of Nilgiris Joseph 1987 drawing fide; Orchid Monographs Vol 4 Ansari & Balakrishnan 1990 drawing fide/photo fide; Lankesteriana Vol 18 [1]: 23–62 Jalal & Jayanth 2018 photo good; Orchids of Maharashtra Jalal 2018;

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