Species Information - Oberonia gracilipes

Oberonia gracilipes Schltr., Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 1 (1911) 168

Type: Schlechter 18907 (holo B, lost)

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Epiphytic, erect, tufted, to 13 cm high. Rhizome very short; roots filiform, elongated, flexuose, glabrous. Stems short, densely 6-8-leaved, entirely hidden by the leaf-bases, to 4 cm long. Leaves erect-patent, obliquely lanceolate, subacute, free part 1.3-2.5 cm long, at the base 0.4-0.5 cm wide. Inflorescence pedunculate, elongated, densely many-flowered, to 5 cm long, 0.4 cm diam. across the flowers; peduncle slender, 2-4 cm long. Floral bracts lanceolate, acuminate, with subdentate margins, about as long as the ovary. Flowers patent, almost whorled, closely spaced, minute, glabrous. Sepals ovate, obtuse, hardly more than 0.05 cm long. Lateral sepals oblique, wider than the median sepal, subelliptic. Petals obliquely ovate, obtuse, a little smaller than the sepals. Lip without basal auricles, oblong, 0.08 cm long, dilated in the middle, at the apex shortly bilobulate with triangular, obtuse, subparallel lobules. Column very short, towards the apex conspicuously dilated. Anther subreniform-orbicular, obtuse. Ovary cylindrical, glabrous, including the pedicel c. 0.08 cm long. (After Schlechter, 1911-1914)

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