Species Information - Oberonia kempteri

Oberonia kempteri Schltr., Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. 16 (1919) 109

Type: Kempter s.n. (Kaiser Wilhelmsland, area behind Vanimo) (holo B, lost)

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Epiphytic, creeping, very small, 8-1O cm high. Rhizome creeping, flexuose, slender; roots filiform, flexuose, thin, glabrous. Stems c. 1 cm apart, erect, flexuose, 8- to 12-leaved, to 6 cm long. Leaves erect-patent, . equitant, linear, acute, 2.5-5 cm long. Inflorescence shortly pedunculate, erect, at the apex sometimes bent or almost recurved, densely many-flowered, slender; peduncle with a few scales, to 1 cm long; rachis to 4 cm long, 0.35 cm diam. across the flowers. Floral bracts lanceolate, acuminate, almost as long as the ovary. Flowers almost whorled, closely spaced, patent, very small, glabrous, not resupinate, c. 0.15 cm diam. Sepals patent, oblong-ovate, obtuse, 0.08 cm long. Lateral sepals oblique. Petals patent, obliquely oblong-elliptic, obtuse, with irregular, subdentate margins, almost as long as the sepals. Lip erect, in outline oblong-quadrate, below the middle pandurate-constricted, at the base subcordate, at the apex with two short, triangular, subobtuse lobules with a broadly obtuse tooth in between, in apical half with irregular, subdentate margins, a little larger than the sepals. Column short. Ovary cylindrical, glabrous, almost 0.08 cm long. (After Schlechter, 1919)

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