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Orchid Species: Oberonia microphylla
(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)
Oberonia microphylla is an orchid species identified by (Blume) Lindl. in 1830.
ORIGIN: Found in Thailand, Malaysia, Java, Vietnam and Taiwan in evergreen forests along streams in very wet forests at elevations of 250 to 1250 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Mini-miniature sized, hot to cool growing epiphyte with thin stems enveloped completely by imbricate leaf sheath bases carrying 5 or so, different sized, rather narrow, scarsely diverging from one another and curving inward, distichous-equitant, laterally compressed, acuminate to slightly curve-tipped leaves that blooms in the spring on an axillary, to 4 [10 cm] long, many flowered inflorescence with oblong floral bracts and [2 to 3 mm] between each whorl of flowers.
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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