Oberonia pyrulifera Lindl., Fol. Orchid.

Ormerod, Paul, Kurzweil, Hubert & Watthana, Santi, 2021, Annotated List of Orchidaceae for Myanmar, Phytotaxa 481 (1), pp. 1-262 : 176

Oberonia pyrulifera Lindl., Fol. Orchid. 8: 3, 1859

Homotypic synonyms: Malaxis pyrulifera (Lindl.) Rchb. f. in Ann. Bot. Syst. (Walpers) 6: 211, 1861. Iridorkis pyrulifera (Lindl.) Kuntze, Revis. Gen . Pl. 2: 669, 1891.

Specimens examined:— CHIN. Mindat District : 2590 m, 28 Oct 1956, Kingdon-Ward 22783 ( BM) , ident. uncertain; same loc., 2350−2550 m, 7 Dec 2002, Murata et al. 024737 ( MBK) ; same loc., 2745 m, 19 Nov 2011, Ling Shein Man 087843 ( MBK) ; same loc., 2450−2545 m, 31 Aug 2013, Fujikawa et al. 094771 ( MBK) .

Distribution:— India, the Himalayas, western Myanmar, Thailand and southwestern China.

Oberonia rufilabris Lindl., Sert. Orchid. : t. 8A, 1838. Type:— MYANMAR. Tanintharyi Region: Myeik District, Griffith s.n. (holotype: K-LINDL; isotypes: L, P)

Homotypic synonyms: Malaxis rufilabris (Lindl.) Rchb. f. in Ann. Bot. Syst. (Walpers) 6: 213, 1861. Iridorkis rufilabris (Lindl.) Kuntze, Revis. Gen . Pl. 2: 669, 1891.

Specimens examined:— KAYIN. Hpa-An District: Dickason 7826 ( AMES); Thaungyin Valley : Lace s.n. ( E) . MON. Mawlamyine District: Griffith s.n. (not located), fide Grant (1895: 32); same loc., Parish 255 (not located), fide Parish (1883: 190; as Malaxis rufilabre ) . TANINTHARYI. Myeik District: type; same loc., Meebold 14798 ( CAL). WITHOUT LOCALITY. Berkeley s.n. ( K) .

Distribution:— India, the Himalayas, Myanmar, Thailand, Indochina, southwestern and southern China and western Malesia.

Note:— King & Pantling (1898: 12) also referred Kurz?3278 (possibly correctly Kurz 3279) at CAL to this species, but perhaps it is O. helferi .