Brachypeza stenoglottis [Hkr.f] Garay 1972
Photos by © Peter O'Byrne and the Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Rernz Herbaria Website
Common Name The Slim Lipped Brachypeza
Flower Size 1/2" to 3/4" [1.3 to 1.7 cm]
Found in Malaysia, Sumatra, Borneo, the Moluccas, Sulawesi and New Guinea in hill forests at elevations around 200 to 300 meters as a small sized, hot growing epiphyte with a very short stem carrying 6 to 10, close set, decurved, almost flat, rounded, emarginate spically leaves that blooms on a pendulous, not branched, shorter than the leaves, 7.2" [18 cm] long, successively several flowered inflroescence with 2 to 3 flowers open at any one time.
CAUTION I have no way of verifying this determination so please use with caution.
Synonyms Pteroceras stenoglottis (Hook.f.) Holttum 1960; *Sarcochilus stenoglottis Hook.f. 1890; Thrixspermum stenoglottis (Hook.f.) Kuntze 1891
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; A Century of Indian Orchids Vol 5 Hooker 1895 as Sarcochilus stenoglottisdrawing good; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965 as Sarcorchilus stenoglottis; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1B lieferung 21 1165 - 1328 Brieger 1988; The Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia and Singapore Seidenfaden & Wood 1992 as syn of B indusiata; AOS Bulletin Vol 63 #10 1994 photo fide; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994; Orchids of Sumatra Comber 2001 photo fide;
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