Oberonia

Finding

SITF confirms this plant as Oberonia microphylla (Jan 2026). Validation was made with the aid of Dr. Daniel Geiger, an international authority on the Genus Oberonia, who positively identified this plant as O. microphylla. The species is characterized by slightly caulescent habit, frequently with reddish leaves, that are always narrow linear and pliable, broad ovate erose petals, the four-lobed lip with rather large sac below the gynostemium with small column wings.

Overall Length Of Growth Cane: 5.5 cm

Number Of Leaves Per Growth Or Cane: 3

Leaf Length: 4.5 cm

Leaf Width: 0.45 cm/4.5 mm

Leaf Shape: oblong pointed (spear)

Pseudobulb Length: 0.45 cm

Pseudobulb Width: 1.2 cm

Pseudobulb Distance: 0.0 cm

Pseudobulb Root Tip: no new root tips visible - old roots white

Inflorescence Overall Length: 4.6 cm

Inflorescence Arrangement: pendulus

Inflorescence Dist Base To Bud: 2 mm

Inflorescence Dist Bet Flowers: 0 mm

Flower Natural Spread Length: 1.1 mm

Flower Natural Spread Width: 1 mm

Judging Center: Chicago JC

Award Number: 20261700

Award Date: January 10, 2026

Awarded As: CCM

Approximately thirteen hundred flowers and 1,300 buds on 26 mature inflorescences and seven immature inflorescences on an 11 cm wide by 9 cm tall plant mounted on a 33.5 com wide by 27 cm tall mopani wood mount; flowers brick red, too minute to measure; anther cap white; substance form; texture satiny.

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