Oberonia caprina Gilli, Ann. Naturhist. Mus. Wien 84/B (1983) 38, fig. 29
Type: Gilli 164 (holo W)
Epiphytic, several-stemmed, 5-8 cm tall. Rhizome short; roots very long, flexuose. Stems erect, densely 8-12-leaved, leaf-bases overlapping. Leaves erect-patent, linear, acute or subacute, 1.5-2.5 by 0.3-0.5 cm. Inflorescence rather densely many-flowered, cylindrical, carrying flowers almost up to the base, 1.5-5 cm long, 0.5 cm diam. across the flowers. Floral bracts lanceolate, acuminate, margins lacerate, 0.15-0.2 cm long, glabrous. Flowers very small, patent. Sepals broadly elliptic, acute, glabrous, hardly 0.1 cm long. Lateral sepals oblique. Petals linear-lanceolate, obtuse, glabrous, a little shorter than the sepals. Lip at the base subquadrate, dilated into a reniform, bilobed blade, 0.1 cm long, glabrous. Column short, glabrous, rather thick. Ovary cylindrical, glabrous, including the pedicel to 0.2 cm long. (After Gilli, 1983)
Colours: Leaves pale green. Flowers pale yellow.
Habitat: Epiphyte in upper montane forest.
Flowering time in the wild: January.
Distribution: Malesia (New Guinea, endemic).
Distribution in New Guinea: Papua New Guinea. See map: 485-55M.JPG.
Cultivation: Cool growing epiphyte.