Botanical name: Oberonia brachystachys    Family: Orchidaceae (Orchid family)
Synonyms: Oberonia brachyphylla, Oberonia parvula, Malaxis brachystachys

Short-Spike Oberonia is a small erect or drooping tree-dwelling orchid, with usually 4-6 leaves, forming a stemless fan. Leaves are variable in length, shape, typically elongated ovate pointed, occasionally squat ovate pointed, typically 2-6 cm long, 0.6-1.2 cm wide. Flower spikes are typically 5-7 cm long, mostly 1.5-3 times as long as leaves. Flowering stem is short, axis longitudinally grooved, flowers variously arranged from distinct whorls, to in spiral, or scattered. Flowers are 0.75-1.5 x 1-1.75 mm, typically 1.5 x 1.5 mm, green, yellow, brown, orange, sometimes two-coloured with lip orange to brownish red, reminder greenish. Sepals are broad, oval, pointed. Petals oblong, blunt, erose to toothed. Lip is typically four lobed. Short-Spike Oberonia is found in Indian Subcontinent to parts of SE Asia, including Eastern Himalaya, at altitudes up to 2400 m. Flowering: All year.

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