Species Information - Oberonia lancipetala

Oberonia lancipetala Schltr., Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. 16 (1919) 110

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

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Epiphytic, erect, 10-12 cm high. Rhizome very short; roots filiform, flexuose, slender, glabrous. Stems slightly flexuose, 4- to 5-leaved, up to 6 cm long. Leaves suberect, falcate-ligulate, subacute, equitant, somewhat carnose, to 5 cm long, below the middle to 0.45 cm wide. Inflorescence very shortly pedunculate, curved to erect, up to 3 cm long, c. 0.2 cm diam. across the flowers. Floral bracts lanceolate, acuminate, almost equalling the flowers, margins subdentate. Flowers patent, not resupinate, almost whorled, glabrous, very small, nearly 0.15 cm diam. Sepals patent, ovate, subacute, nearly 0.07 cm long. Lateral sepals oblique. Petals patent, narrowly and obliquely lanceolate, acute, 1-nerved, almost as long as the sepals. Lip erect, in outline oblong-quadrate, at the base cordate-auriculate, in apical half 3-lobed, a little larger than the sepals; lateral lobes triangular-semi-oblong, short, obtuse; median broadly obcordate, at the apex obtuse and broadly bilobulate. Column short, rather thick. Ovary cylindrical, glabrous, 0.07 cm long. (After Schlechter, 1919)

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