Oberonioides

{{Short description|Genus of orchids}}

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| image_caption = Oberonioides pusillus

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| taxon = Oberonioides

| authority = Szlach.

| type_species_authority = (Seidenf.) Szlach.

| type_species = Oberonioides oberoniiflora

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Oberonioides is a genus of orchids native to China and Thailand.Szlachetko, Dariusz L. 1995. Fragmenta Floristica et Geobotanica Suppl. 3: 134. Only two species are known:[http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.do?name_id=136669 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families][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)]

• 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.{{cite book | last=Burkhardt | first=Lotte | title=Eine Enzyklopädie zu eponymischen Pflanzennamen |trans-title=Encyclopedia of eponymic plant names | publisher=Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin | year=2022 | isbn=978-3-946292-41-8 | url=https://doi.org/10.3372/epolist2022|format=pdf |language=German |location=Berlin | doi=10.3372/epolist2022 |access-date=January 27, 2022}}

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