Oberonia repens Schltr., Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 1 (1911) 161
Type: Schlechter 20045 (holo B, lost)
Epiphytic, creeping, small, up to 8 cm high. Rhizome elongated, slender; roots filiform, elongated, flexuose, glabrous. Stems 1-2 cm apart, short, densely 4-5-leaved, entirely hidden by the leaf-bases, up to 2 cm long. Leaves obliquely linear, acute, 2-6.5 cm long, at the base 0.2-0.3 cm wide. Inflorescence carrying flowers up to above the base, erect, usually rather laxly many-flowered, to 4 cm long, c. 0.3 cm diam. across the flowers. Floral bracts lanceolate, acuminate, glabrous, margins subentire, a little shorter than the flowers. Flowers minute, patent, glabrous. Median sepal ovate-oblong, obtuse, hardly more than 0.05 cm long. Lateral sepals obliquely broadly ovate, obtuse, as long as the median sepal. Petals rhombic-spathulate, obtuse, in upper half with minutely serrulate margins, a little shorter than the sepals. Lip at the base cordate-auriculate, broadly pandurate, constricted at the middle, apex shortly bilobulate with divergent, subquadrate lobules of which the outer margins carry a few obtuse teeth, lip at the apex a little narrower than at the base, a little longer than the sepals. Column very short, rather thick, glabrous. Ovary clavate, glabrous, including the pedicel 0.08 cm long. (After Schlechter, 1911-1914)
Colours: Flowers orange-red.
Habitat: Epiphyte in hill forest; 600 m.
Flowering time in the wild: September.
Distribution: Malesia (New Guinea, endemic).
Distribution in New Guinea: Papua New Guinea. See map: 485-309M.JPG.
Cultivation: Warm growing epiphyte.