Pendulous Oberonia is a pendulous tree-dwelling orchid.
Leaves are 10-16 x 0.6-1.4 cm, sword-shaped, flattened, pointed;
flowering stem up to 10 cm long, slightly winged. Inflorescence is a
many flowered spike with a sterile portion at the tip; floral bracts
4.5 x 2 mm, ovate, fringed. Flowers are greenish yellow brown, 5 x 2
mm, in verticils; dorsal sepal oblong, blunt; lateral sepals
oblong-ovate, blunt; petals linear, blunt, decurved along margins; lip
2.5 mm across, 3-lobed; lateral lobes longitudinally elongated.
Pendulous Oberonia is endemic to Southern Western Ghats. Flowering:
September-October.
Identification credit: M. Sulaiman
Photographed in Kakkayam, Kozhikode, Kerala.
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