Bromheadia crassiflora J.J.Sm. 1931 SECTION Aporodes
Photo by © Gary Yong Gee and his Orchid Photo Website
Common Name The Thick Flowered Bromheadia
Flower Size .6" [1.5 cm]
Found in Borneo in lower montane forests at elevations of 1300 to 1600 meters as a large sized, cool growing epiphyte with an erect stem enveloped completely by basally clasping leaf sheaths carrying linear, unequally bilobed apically leaves that blooms on an axillary, to 3" [7.5cm] long, enveloped completely by imbricating bracts, successively 1 to 2, many flowered inflorescence.
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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994; Orchid Monographs Vol 8 Kruiz. & de Vogel 1997 drawing fide; Orchids of Sarawak Beeman & Wood 2001; The Orchids of Mt Kinabalu Vol 2 Wood, Beaman, Lamb, Lun and Beaman 2011 drawing ok
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