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Oberonia bifida

Oberonia bifida

Oberonia bifida Schltr. in K.Schum. & Lauterb., Nachtr. Fl. Deutsch. Schutzgeb. Südsee (1905) 109

Type: Schlechter 14081 (holo B, lost; iso K)

Synonyms:

  • Oberonia japenensis J.J.Sm., Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 66 (1934) 168
    - Type: Stein 50 (holo ?B, lost)

Epiphytic, erect, with one or several stems, c. 12 cm high; roots filiform, elongated, glabrous, flexuose. Stem laxly c. 6-leaved, at the base covered with short cataphylls, weakly flexuose. Leaves erect-patent, linear, sharply acute, sheathing at the base, 3-5 cm long, near the middle 0.3 cm wide; sheaths ancipitous, long connate along their front margins. Inflorescence erect, cylindrical, rather dense, surpassing the upper leaves, 6.5 cm long, 0.4 cm diam. across the flowers. Floral bracts lanceolate, acuminate, as long as the ovary. Flowers almost whorled, patent, not resupinate. Median sepal ovate, subobtuse. Lateral sepals as large, ovate, obtuse, somewhat oblique, 0.1 cm long. Petals linear-oblong, obtuse, as long as the sepals. Lip at the base oblong, 0.15 cm long, somewhat concave, indistinctly auriculate, ligulate, deeply bilobed, the lobes subfalcate, oblong, obtuse. Column rather thick, very short. Ovary shortly pedicellate, cylindrical, 0.15 cm long. (After Schlechter, 1905)


Flowers orange.

Epiphyte in lowland and montane forest; 450 to 1450 m.

Malesia (New Guinea), Solomon Islands, New Caledonia, Vanuatu, ?Samoa.

Papua (Indonesia); Papua New Guinea. See map

distribution in New Guinea

Warm to intermediate growing epiphyte.

January, March, June, September, November.

  • Schlechter, R., Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 1 (1911) 163
  • Schlechter, R., Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 21 (1923) t. 63, fig. 224
  • Family Orchidaceae
  • Subfamily Epidendroideae
  • Tribe Malaxideae
  • Section Otoglossum
  • Genus Oberonia
  • Species Oberonia bifida

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Oberonia bifida

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Oberonia bifida

Oberonia bifida Schltr., plant habit, photo E.F. de Vogel, Leiden cult. 20031896

Oberonia bifida

Oberonia bifida Schltr., plant habit, photo E.F. de Vogel, Leiden cult. 20031896

Oberonia bifida

Oberonia bifida Schltr., part inflorescence, photo E.F. de Vogel, Leiden cult. 20031896

Oberonia bifida

Oberonia bifida Schltr., flowers, front view, photo E.F. de Vogel, Leiden cult. 20031896

Oberonia bifida

Oberonia bifida Schltr., drawing R. Schlechter in Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 21 (1923) t. 63, fig. 224

Oberonia bifida

Oberonia japenensis J.J.Sm., floral analysis, drawing J.J. Smith, based on Stein 50