Bromheadia borneensis J.J.Sm. 1917 SECTION Bromheadia
Photo by © Sonny Wibisono
Photo by © A. van der Ent/ TYPE Drawing by J J Smith and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
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Common Name The Borneo Bromheadia
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Found in penninsular Malaysia and Borneo in swampy ground of swamp forests, lowland forests, hill forests and ridge top forests at elevations of 50 to 700 meters as a large sized, hot to warm growing terrestrial with remote stems carrying ellitic to oblong, shortly unequally bilobed apically leaves that blooms in the late winter and early spring on a termijnal, erect, branched, peduncle 18 to 33.6" [45 to 84 cm] long, rachis to 2.6" [6.5 cm] long, flexuous, successively single, many flowered inflorescence with ephemeral flowers.
Synonyms Bromheadia borneensis var. longiflora Scheind. & de Vogel 1997
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; A Checklist of the orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1984; The Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia and Singapore Seidenfaden & Wood 1992 drawing fide; Orchid Monographs Vol 8 Bromheadia Scheidelen & de Vogel 1997 drawing ok; Orchids of Sarawak Beaman, Wood, Beaman etal 2001; Malesian Orchid Journal Vol 17 O'Byrne 2016 photo fide
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