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Orchid Species: Oberonia bifida
(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)
Oberonia bifida is an orchid species identified by Schltr. in K.M.Schumann & C.A.G.Lauterbach in 1905.
ORIGIN: Found in Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, New Caledonia, Samoa and Vanuatu in lowland and montane forests at elevations of 450 to 1450 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Miniature sized, hot to cool growing epiphyte with erect, clustered stems carrying, laxly 6, erect-patent, linear, sharply acute leaves that blooms in the winter, spring and fall on an erect, cylindrical, rather dense, longer than the leaves, [2.6 [6.5 cm] long, racemose inflorescence with lanceolate, acuminate, as long as the ovary floral bracts and carrying small, non-resupinate flowers.
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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