Species Information - Oberonia lucida

Oberonia lucida J.J.Sm., Orchid. Ambon (1905) 26

Type: J.J. Smith (Ambon, near the capital) (holo BO; iso L, probable, Bogor cult., 92, 1905, no coll.)

Synonyms:

• Oberonia wariana Schltr., Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 1 (1911) 147
  - Type: Schlechter 17406 (holo B, lost)

Epiphytic, pendent, 25-30 cm long, several-stemmed. Rhizome very short; roots filiform, elongated, flexuose, glabrous. Stem almost straight, entirely hidden by the leaf-sheaths, many-leaved. Leaves erect-patent, free part obliquely lanceolate, acute, 1.5-2.5 cm long, at the base 0.5-0.6 cm wide. Inflorescence carrying flowers almost up to the base, elongated, cylindrical, c. 6 cm long, 0.4 cm diam. across the flowers. Floral bracts patent, ovate-lanceolate, acute, glabrous, usually shorter than the ovary. Flowers minute, patent, not resupinated, glabrous. Sepals broadly elliptic-oblong, obtuse, almost 0.1 cm long. Lateral sepals oblique. Petals obliquely linear-ligulate, obtuse, as long as the sepals. Lip at the base long-auriculate; blade in outline oblong, c. 0.15 cm long, near the middle 0.075 cm wide, bifid in apical third, margins in apical half serrate-denticulate; auricles falcate-oblong, obtuse, clasping the column, with a distinct median keel running from base to apex, hardly more than 0.05 cm long. Column very short, rather thick. Anther subreniform. Ovary cylindrical, glabrous, almost 0.1 cm long. (After Schlechter, 1911-1914)

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