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Oberonia diura
Oberonia diura Schltr. in K.Schum. & Lauterb., Nachtr. Fl. Deutsch. Schutzgeb. Südsee (1905) 111
Type: Schlechter 14085 (holo B, lost)
Synonyms:
Epiphytic, erect, several-stemmed, 10-18 cm high; roots filiform, elongated, flexuose, glabrous. Stems flexuose, laxly 6-8-leaved, entirely covered with the ancipitous leaf-sheaths. Leaves erect-patent, linear or linear-lanceolate, sharply acute or acuminate, more or less falcate, sheathing at the base, 3-9 cm long, near the middle 0.4-0.6 cm wide. Inflorescence cylindrical, densely many-flowered, not surpassing the upper leaf, 2.7-3.5 cm long, 0.6 cm diam. across the flowers. Floral bracts lanceolate, acuminate, patent, shorter than the ovary. Flowers patent. Sepals ovate-oblong, subobtuse, 0.15 cm long. Lateral sepals somewhat oblique. Petals oblong, obtuse, somewhat smaller than the sepals. Lip at the base dilated, towards the apex linear-narrowed, apex prolonged into two flexuose, erect-patent tails, 0.2 cm long. Column very short thick. Anther rounded. (After Schlechter, 1905)
Flowers orange.
Epiphyte in lowland and lower montane forest, often along streams; 75 to 1350 m.
Malesia (New Guinea, endemic).
Papua (Indonesia); Papua New Guinea. See map
Warm to intermediate growing epiphyte.
January, May, September, October.
- Schlechter, R., Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 1 (1911) 154
- Smith, J.J., Nova Guinea 12, 3 (1915) 216, t. 70, fig. 120
- Schlechter, R., Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 21 (1923) t. 59, fig. 210
- Family Orchidaceae
- Subfamily Epidendroideae
- Tribe Malaxideae
- Section Diurium
- Genus Oberonia
- Species Oberonia diura
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Oberonia diura
Oberonia diura Schltr., drawing R. Schlechter in Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 21 (1923) t. 59, fig. 210
Oberonia diura
Oberonia diura Schltr., floral analysis, drawing J.J. Smith, based on Gjellerup 791