Bromheadia cecieliae Kruiz. 1997 SECTION Aporodes

Photo by © Art Vogel

Common Name Cecielia's Bromheadia [Wife of Author current]

Flower Size .08" [2 mm]

Found in Sarawak and Sabah Borneo in mossy lower montane forests at elevations of 1200 to 1700 meters as a medium sized, cool growing, trunk epiphyte with a stem completely enveloped by leaf sheaths and carrying linear, laterally flattened to terete, straight to slightly curved leaves that blooms fall and winter on an unbranched to 7 branched, terminal, to 25 flowered inflorescence with imbricating bracts from which the successively single flowers emerge.

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Orchid Monographs Vol 8 Kruizinga,Scheindlin & De Vogel 1997 drawing fide; Orchids of Sarawak Beaman Wood etal 2001; Malesian Orchid Journal Vol 8 2011; The Orchids of Mount Kinabalu Vol 1 Wood, Beaman, Lamb, Chu Lun and Beaman 2011 drawing/photo fide; The Orchids of Mount Kinabalu Vol 2 Wood, Beaman, Lamb, Chu Lun and Beaman 2011;

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