Oberonia cavaleriei Finet 1908 SUBGENUS Oberonia
Photos by © Marni Turkel
Photo by © K Keller and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
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Common Name or Meaning Cavaliere's Oberonia [Italian Orciginal Collector of Species early 1900's] - In China Bang Ye Yuan Wei Lan
Flower Size .1" [2.6 mm]
Found in Guangxi, Guizhou, Jiangxi, Sichuan, Yunnan provinces of China as well as India, Nepal, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam in forests or thickets on branches at elevations of 800 to 1500 meters as a miniature sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with short, often pendulous stems carrying subbasal, 4 to 5, subcylindric to compressed cylindric, more or less laterally compressed, equitant at base, often slightly curved, fleshy, base with white transparent scarious margin on one side, articulate, acuminate apically leaves that blooms in the later summer on a cylindric, wingless, pendulous, 4 to 6 " [10 to 15 cm] long, densely many flowered inflorescence with many, narrowly lanceolate, sterile bracts and has lanceolate, membraneous, irregularily dentate margin, long acuminate apically floral bracts.
CAUTION This species is often confused with the epiteth Phreatia mathewsii. This occurred when Lindley mistakenly put Oberonia myosurus [when describing what is known as O cavaleriei] as a synonym of Epidendrum myosurus, another species which is now known as Phreatia matthewsii. This species is not a Phreatia and the name of Oberonia cavalierei supplanted Oberonia myosurus as it was misapplied. See Phreatia matthewsii to see what the Phreatia species really looks like.
Synonyms Malaxis myosurus C.S.P.Parish & Rchb.f. 1874
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Dansk Botanisk Arkiv Bind 33 #1 Orchid Genera in Thailand VII Oberonia & Malaxis Seidenfaden 1978 as O myosurus drawing fide; Orchid Monographs Vol 4 Ansari & Balakrishnan 1990 as O myosurus drawing fide; Orchids of Kumaun Himalayas Pangtey, Samant and Rawat 1991 as O myosurus; A field Guide to the Wild Orchids of Thailand Vaddhanaphuti 2005 as Oberonia myosurus photo fide; A Field Guide to the Orchids of China Singchi, Zhongjian, Yibo, Xiaohua and Zhanhuo 2009 photo fide; Flora of China Vol 25 Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2009; Flora of China Vol 25 Illustrations Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2010 drawing fide; The Wild Orchids in Yunnan Xu Xiang Ye & Liu 2010 photos fide; A Compendium of Miniature Orchid Species Vol 2 Parsons & Geritsen 2013 photos fide; Turczaninowia 16(4):26-46 NEW AND RARE ORCHIDS (ORCHIDACEAE) IN THE FLORA OF CAMBODIA AND LAOS Averyanov 2013 Turczaninowia 19 (3): 5–58 L. V. Averyanov, Khang Sinh Nguyen etal 2016 ; Atlas of Native Orchids of China Vol 2 Jin Xiaohua, Li Jianwu and Ye Deping 2019 photo fide;
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