Chamaeanthus brachystachys Schltr. 1905 Photo courtesy of Dr. E.F. de Vogel, André Schuiteman, and Jaap Vermeulen and Their Netherlands National Herbarium Website

Common Name or Meaning The Short Inflorescence Chamaeanthus

Flower Size .2" [6mm]

Found in Thailand, Borneo, Java and the Philippines in swampy podosol and hill forests at elevations up to 900 meters as a miniature sized, hot growing, monopodial epiphyte with a very short, stems each carrying 4 to 6, pale green, thick, channeled above, denticulate apically leaves taht blooms in the late spring on an axillary, 1" [2.5 cm] long, successively many [30 flowered] flowered inflorescence with short, acute bracts.

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994; Orchids of Java Comber 2002; Flora Malesiana Orchids of the Philippines Vol I Agoo, Shuiteman and de Vogel 2003