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Oberonia caprina
Oberonia caprina Gilli, Ann. Naturhist. Mus. Wien 84/B (1983) 38, fig. 29
Type: Gilli 164 (holo W)
Synonyms:
Epiphytic, several-stemmed, 5-8 cm tall. Rhizome short; roots very long, flexuose. Stems erect, densely 8-12-leaved, leaf-bases overlapping. Leaves erect-patent, linear, acute or subacute, 1.5-2.5 by 0.3-0.5 cm. Inflorescence rather densely many-flowered, cylindrical, carrying flowers almost up to the base, 1.5-5 cm long, 0.5 cm diam. across the flowers. Floral bracts lanceolate, acuminate, margins lacerate, 0.15-0.2 cm long, glabrous. Flowers very small, patent. Sepals broadly elliptic, acute, glabrous, hardly 0.1 cm long. Lateral sepals oblique. Petals linear-lanceolate, obtuse, glabrous, a little shorter than the sepals. Lip at the base subquadrate, dilated into a reniform, bilobed blade, 0.1 cm long, glabrous. Column short, glabrous, rather thick. Ovary cylindrical, glabrous, including the pedicel to 0.2 cm long. (After Gilli, 1983)
Leaves pale green. Flowers pale yellow.
Epiphyte in upper montane forest.
Malesia (New Guinea, endemic).
Papua New Guinea. See map
Cool growing epiphyte.
January.
- Family Orchidaceae
- Subfamily Epidendroideae
- Tribe Malaxideae
- Section Platyacron
- Genus Oberonia
- Species Oberonia caprina
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Oberonia caprina
Oberonia caprina Gilli, drawing A. Gilli in Ann. Naturhist. Mus. Wien 84/B (1983) 38, fig. 29, based on Gilli 164 (holotype W)