| Narrow-Spike Oberonia |
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Botanical name: Oberonia wightiana Family: Orchidaceae (Orchid family)
Synonyms: Oberonia arnottiana, Oberonia stachyoides, Iridorchis wightiana
Synonyms: Oberonia arnottiana, Oberonia stachyoides, Iridorchis wightiana
Narrow-Spike Oberonia is a mini-miniature sized, hot to
cool growing, tree-dwelling orchid, with 3-5, sword-shpaed, often
curved, pointed-tapering leaves, up to 15 x 1 cm. Flowering stems are
round in cross-section. Flower-spikes are up to 15 cm long. Flowers are
3.5 x 1.5 mm, orange yellow, scattered on the axis; dorsal sepal
oblong, blunt, entire; lateral sepals ovate-oblong, somewhat pointed.
Petals are linear, blunt, entire; lip 2 mm across, 3-lobed; lateral
lobes oblong, strap-shaped, wing-like on spreading; midlobe 2-lobuled;
lobules strap-shaped, toothed at tip, diverging; disc ovate,
indistinct. Narrow-Spike Oberonia is found in South India and Sri Lanka.
Flowering: August-November.
| Identification credit: P.S. Sivaprasad | Photographed in the Nilgiris, Tamil Nadu. |
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