Oberonioides

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

Oberonioides
Oberonioides pusillus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Order: Asparagales
Family: Orchidaceae
Subfamily: Epidendroideae
Tribe: Malaxideae
Subtribe: Malaxidinae
Genus: Oberonioides
Szlach.
Type species
Oberonioides oberoniiflora
(Seidenf.) Szlach.

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.

References
  1. Szlachetko, Dariusz L. 1995. Fragmenta Floristica et Geobotanica Suppl. 3: 134.
  2. Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  3. Flora of China, v 25 p 235, 小沼兰 xiao zhao lan, Oberonioides microtatantha (Schlechter) Szlachetko (Synonym of Oberonioides pusillus)
  4. Burkhardt, Lotte (2022). Eine Enzyklopädie zu eponymischen Pflanzennamen [Encyclopedia of eponymic plant names] (pdf) (in German). Berlin: Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin. doi:10.3372/epolist2022. ISBN 978-3-946292-41-8. Retrieved January 27, 2022.
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