Oberonioides Explained

Oberonioides is a genus of orchids native to China and Thailand.^[1] Only two species are known:^{[2] [3]}

• Oberonioides oberoniiflora (Seidenf.) Szlach. - Thailand
• Oberonioides pusillus (Rolfe) Marg. & Szlach. - Jiangxi, Fujian, Taiwan

The genus name of Oberonioides is derived from Oberon, a king of the fairies in medieval and Renaissance literature.^[4]

The genus was circumscribed by Dariusz Lucjan Szlachetko in Fragm. Florist. Geobot. Suppl. vol.3 on page 134 in 1995.

External links

• IOSPE orchid photos, Malaxis microtatantha (Synonym of Oberonioides pusillus)
• Nature Museum, CFH图库 photos, 照片浏览 分类系统位置： 外部资源： Oberonioides microtatantha (Tang & F.T.Wang) Szlach. 小沼兰

Notes and References

1. Szlachetko, Dariusz L. 1995. Fragmenta Floristica et Geobotanica Suppl. 3: 134.
2. http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.do?name_id=136669 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
3. http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=250092623 Flora of China, v 25 p 235, 小沼兰 xiao zhao lan, Oberonioides microtatantha (Schlechter) Szlachetko (Synonym of Oberonioides pusillus)
4. Book: Burkhardt, Lotte . Eine Enzyklopädie zu eponymischen Pflanzennamen . Encyclopedia of eponymic plant names . Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin . 2022 . 978-3-946292-41-8 . pdf . German . Berlin . 10.3372/epolist2022 . January 27, 2022.