Brachypeza cladostachya (Hook.f.) Kocyan & Schuit. 2014
Another Angle with lip held down
Photos by © Art Vogel
Photos by Dr. E.F. de Vogel, courtesy of André Schuiteman and Jaap Vermeulenand Their Netherlands National Herbarium Website
Common Name or Meaning The Branching Inflorescence Brachypeza
Flower Size 3/4" [2 cm]
Found in Malaysia, Borneo, Java, Sulawesi and the Philippines in lowland to hill forests on limestone rocks at elevations of sealevel to 1200 meters as a miniature sized, hot to cool growing lithophyte with a curved short stem carrying a few, unequally bilobed apically, obtuse leaves that blooms in the summer on an axillary, glabrous, to 1 7/8" [to 4.9 cm], many flowered inflorescence with only 1 to 2, short lived flowers open at any one time.
Synonyms Pteroceras cladostachyum (Hook.f.) H.A.Pedersen 1992; Pteroceras tanyphyllum (Ridl.) Holttum 1960; *Sarcochilus cladostachys Hook.f. 1890; Sarcochilus pallidus var. celebicus Schltr. 1911; Sarcochilus tanyphyllus Ridl. 1893; Thrixspermum cladostachyum (Hook.f.) Kuntze 1891
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; A Century of Indian Orchids Vol 5 Hooker 1895 as Sarcochilus cladostachys drawing fide; The Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia and Singapore Woods & Seidenfaden 1992 as Pteroceras cladostachyum drawing ok; The Plants of Mount Kinabalu Vol 2 Orchids Beaman, Wood, Beaman & Beaman 1993 as Pteroceras aff cladostachyum; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994 as Pteroceras cladostachyum; Orchids of Sarawak Beaman, Wood & Beaman etal 2001 as Pteroceras cladostachyum photo fide; A to Z of South East Asian Orchid Species Vol 1 O'Byrne 2001 as Pteroceras cladostachyum photo fide; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1C lieferung 42 - 43 pg 2626 - 2762 Brieger 2001 as Pteroceras cladostachyum; Lindleyana Vol 17 No 1 2002 as Pteroceras cladostachyum; Flora Malesiana Orchids of the Philippines Vol I Agoo, Shuiteman and de Vogel 2003 as Pteroceras cladostachyum; Wild Orchids of the Cameron Highlands REACH 2009 as Pteroceras cladostachum photo fide; Malesian Orchid Journal Vol 5 2010 as Pteroceras cladostachyum; The Orchids of Mount Kinabalu Vol 2 Wood, Beaman, Lamb, Chu Lun and Beaman 2011 as Pteroceras cladostachyum photo ok, Philippine Native Orchid species Cootes 2011 as Pteroceras cladostachyum photo fide;
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