Oberonia acaulis Griff. 1851 SUBGENUS Oberonia
Photo by © David Du Puy and The Arkive Website
Photo by © Mario and The Greek Orchid Society Website
Drawing by Fitch and www.plantillustrations.org Website
Photo by Bhutan Orchid Adventures Website
In situ O acaulis var luchensis
Photos by Li Jianwu
Common Name The Stem-Less Oberonia - In China Xian Mai Yuan Wei Lan
Flower Size .06" [1.5 mm]
Found in China, eastern Himalayas, Nepal, Bhutan, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam on trees in forests at elevations of 800 to 2250 meters as a small to medium sized, warm to cold growing epiphyte with a short stem carrying 3 to 5, linear-ensiform, falcate, acuminate, unequal leaves that blooms in the fall and winter on an axillary, verticiliate, long, slender, terete, decurved, 6.4 to 14.8" [16 to 37 cm] long, densely many flowered inflorescence with distant linear bracts and lanceolate, acuminate, erose-fimbriate floral bracts
Synonyms Iridorkis myriantha (Lindl.) Kuntze 1891; Malaxis myriantha (Lindl.) Rchb.f. 1861; Malaxis sikkimensis (Lindl.) Rchb.f. 1861; Oberonia acaulis var. luchunensis S.C.Chen 1982; Oberonia hosseusii Schltr. 1906; Oberonia myriantha Lindl. 1859; Oberonia quinquelobata Kerr 1927; Oberonia sikkimensis Lindl. 1859;
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Orchids of Sikkim-Himalaya Part 1 King & Pantling 1898 as O myriantha drawing fide; The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitinand 1959 as O hosseusii; The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitinand 1959 as O quinquelobata; The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitinand 1965 corrections as O quinquelobata; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; Dansk Botanisk Arkiv Bind 33 nr 1 Orchids of Thailand VII Oberonia & Malaxis Seidenfaden 1978 drawing ; Indian Orchids: A Guide to Identification and Culture Vol 2 Pradhan Drawing fide; Indian Orchids: A Guide to Identification and Culture Vol 2 Pradhan 1979 as O myriantha Drawing not; Die Orchideen Band 3 Sonderabdruck aus Schlechter Brieger, Maatsch and Senghas Liferung #14 820 - 880 1984; Orchids of Arunchal Pradesh Hegde 1984; AOS Bulletin Vol 54 No 3 1985; Orchid Monographs Vol 4 Ansari & Balakrishnan 1990 as O myriantha drawing ok/ photook; Orchid Monographs Vol 4 Ansari & Balakrishnan 1990 drawing fide; Orchids of Kumaun Himalayas Pangtey, Samant and Rawat 1991; Identification of the Orchids [Orchidaceae Juss.] Vietnam Averyanov 1994; Orchids of Nagaland Deorani & Naithani 1995 drawing fide; Native Orchids of China in Colour Singchi, Zhanhuo and Yibo 1999 photo good; A Field Guide to the Wild Orchids of Thailand Vaddhanaphuti 2001 photo hmm not; Beautiful Orchids of Nepal Rajbhandari & Bhattarai 2001 photo ok; The Orchids of Bhutan Pearce & Cribb 2002; A field Guide to the Wild Orchids of Thailand Vaddhanaphuti 2005 photo hmm not; Orchids of India A Glimpse Misra 2007; Orchids of India A Glimpse Misra 2007 as O myriantha; Native Orchids From Gaoligongshan Mountains, China Xiaohua, Xiaodong and Xiaochun 2009 photo ok; A Field Guide to the Orchids of China Singchi, Zhongjian, Yibo, Xiaohua and Zhanhuo 2009 photo hmm; Flora of China Vol 25 Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2009; Flora of China Vol 25 Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2009 as O acaulis var luchunensis; Flora of China Vol 25 Illustrations Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2010 as O acaulis var luchunensis drawing hmm; The Wild Orchids in Yunnan Xu Xiang Ye & Liu 2010 photos ok; LANKESTERIANA 15(1): 7—50. Jeewan Singh Jalal & J. Jayanthi 2015; Orchid Digest Vol 81 #2 2017 photo fide; Atlas of Native Orchids of China Vol 2 Jin Xiaohua, Li Jianwu and Ye Deping 2019 photo fide; Atlas of Native Orchids of China Vol 2 Jin Xiaohua, Li Jianwu and Ye Deping 2019 as O acaulis var luchensis photo fide;
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