Oberonia torricellensis Schltr., Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 1 (1911) 164
Type: Schlechter 20310 (holo B, lost)
Epiphytic, erect, up to 17 cm high. Rhizome not much elongated, slender; roots filiform, elongated, flexuose, glabrous. Stems c. 0.5-2 cm apart, indistinctly flexuose, entirely covered with the leaf-bases, 9-13-leaved. Leaves erect-patent, subfalcate-oblique, linear, acute, glabrous, free part 1.2-2.5 cm long, at the base 0.2-0.25 cm wide. Inflorescence erect, carrying flowers up to the base, densely many-flowered, up to 5 cm long, 0.3 cm diam. across the flowers. Floral bracts lanceolate, acuminate, with irregularly dentate margins, dorsally sparsely granulose-papillose, almost as long as the flowers. Flowers minute, patent, glabrous. Median sepal ovate, subobtuse, 0.05 cm long. Lateral sepals oblique, wider, obtuse, as long as the median sepal. Petals obliquely linear-oblong, obtuse, about as long as the sepals. Lip a little longer than the sepals, at the base cordate, near the middle somewhat narrowed, extended into a subquadrate, at the apex minutely 3-lobulate lobe. Column very short, rather thick. Anther subreniform, broadly obtuse. Ovary cylindrical, glabrous, including the pedicel 0.08 cm long. (After Schlechter, 1911-1914)
Colours: Flowers light brown.
Habitat: Epiphyte in lower montane forest; 800 m.
Flowering time in the wild: September.
Distribution: Malesia (New Guinea, endemic).
Distribution in New Guinea: Papua New Guinea. See map: 485-380M.JPG.
Cultivation: Intermediate growing epiphyte.