Oberonia swaminathanii

Oberonia swamintahanii Ratheesh, Manudev & Sujanapal, Nordic Journal of Botany, 28: 713 (2010);

India (Kerala, Tamil Nadu) as per POWO;
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Common name: Nilgiri Oberonia

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Oberonia swaminathanii, a new orchid species from Kerala:
Attaching here with the photograph of Oberonia swamintahanii Ratheesh, Manudev & Sujanapal, recently described from Wayanad distict of Kerala. (Narayanan, M. K. R., Manudev, K. M., Sujanapal, P., Kumar, N. A., Sivadasan, M. and Alfarhan, A. H. (2010), Oberonia swaminathanii sp. nov. (Orchidaceae) from Kerala, India. Nordic Journal of Botany, 28: 713–715.
doi: 10.1111/j.1756-1051.2010.00822.x)
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1756-1051.2010.00822.x/a…

Orchidaceae Fortnight: : 1 image. 7 posts by 7 authors.

Attaching here with the image of Oberonia swaminathanii Ratheesh, Manudev & Sujanapal

A species described by our team when I was working in M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation.
This species is so far reported from the Wayanad district of Kerala.

So wonderful to see the cites coming from author himself !
Wonderful, keep it up !!

References:
POWO Flowers of India Flowers of Peninsular India
Oberonia swaminathanii sp. nov. (Orchidaceae) from Kerala, India (Abstract: Oberonia swaminathanii, a new species of Orchidaceae from Wayanad district, Kerala, India is described and illustrated. The new species resembles Oberonia balakrishnanii, O. chandrasekharanii and O. seidenfadeniana by its 3-lobed labellum and 2-lobuled midlobe; but differs in having brick-red coloured flowers, triangular labellum disc, and a subglobose column.)

Updated on December 29, 2025

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