Oberonia setifera Lindl.

This name is a synonym of Oberonia brachystachys

Native to: Assam, East Himalaya, India, Malaya, Myanmar, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Thailand

Orchid Species: Oberonia setifera

Kew currently accepted name is Oberonia recurva

Oberonia setifera is an orchid species identified by Lindl. in 1859. Culture information and photos for this orchid are commonly detailed under the currently accepted name of Oberonia recurva.

Genus

Oberonia (Ob.)

Grex

setifera

Parents

Species

Author

Lindl.

Year

1859

ORIGIN: Found in tha Chinese Himalayas, Assam, Darjeeling, Sikkim, India and Sri Lanka in tropical valleys elevations of 900 to 2000 meters.

DESCRIPTION: Mini-miniature sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with a fan of 3 to 4, ensiform-lanceolate, tapering to an acute apex, straight to weakly falcate, imbricate basally leavest that blooms in the fall and winter on an erect to decurved, 1.2 to 2.4 [3 to 6 cm] long, densely many flowered, terete, grooved inflorescence with oblong-lanceolate to elliptic, subacute, crenulate to entire floral bracts.

FLOWER SIZE: 0.04 inches [1 mm] -- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).

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