Oberonia falcata

Oberonia falcata King & Pantl., J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, Pt. 2, Nat. Hist. 64: 329 (1896).

Oberonia falcata King & Pantl., Photo by The Orchids of the Sikkim-Himalaya by Naresh Swami  

its native range is Central Himalaya to China (Yunnan) and N. Sumatera. 

Latin Name: 

Oberonia falcata King & Pantl.

Family: 

Orchidaceae Juss.

Synonym:

Oberonia caudata King & Pantl.

Oberonia pendula Ridl.

Vietnamese  name:

Móng rùa con, Móng rùa phẳng, La dơn cong.

English Name:

The Sickle-Like Leaf Oberonia.

Description: 

With a flexuose stem enveloped completely by imbricating leaf-bearing sheaths carrying 5 to 6, linear-ensiform, falcate leaves that blooms in the summer and early fall on an erect, subverticillate, terete, 4 to 16 cm long, densely many flowered inflorescence with lanceolate, acute, hyaline, erose floral bracts.

Distribution:

Assam, China South-Central, East Himalaya, Laos, Malaya, Nepal, Sumatera, Thailand, Tibet, Vietnam (Mộc Châu, Sơn La, Kon Plong, Kontum, Phú Quốc).

Ecological:

In tropical valleys at elevations of 1300 to 1800 m as a mini-miniature to small sized, cool growing epiphyte.

Flowering times:

Blooms in the summer and early fall.

Flower size:

1.0 mm.

Cultivation:

Typus:

Pantling, R. [218], India  K000387727 Unknown type material

Pantling, R. [218], India  K000387729 Unknown type material

Pantling, R. [218], India  K000387728 Unknown type material

Reference: 

theplantlist.org

https://www.ipni.org/n/645808-1

http://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:645808-1

http://www.orchidspecies.com/oberfalcata.htm. 

https://orchids.fandom.com/wiki/Bulbophyllum_reticulatum

http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=110&taxon_id=242413818

https://thuocdongduoc.vn/chi-oberonia-lindley-1830