Bromheadia truncata Seidenf. 1983 publ. 1984 SECTION Aporodes
TYPE Drawing by © Seidenfaden
Photos by Dian Rachmawaty © and the Orchids of Borneo Website
THROUGH
Common Name The Truncate Bromheadia
Flower Size 1" [2.5 cm]
Found in Thailand, Malaysia, Sumatra and Borneo in dense primary forests at elevations around 300 to 1800 meters as a small sized, hot to cool growing tufted epiphyte with a stem enveloped basally by sheaths and towards the apex by 3 to 5, laterally flattened, linear, acute, curved, acutely placed to the stem leaves that blooms summer through winter on a terminal, branched or not, gradually lengthening, to .6" [1.5 cm] long, successively 1 to 2 at a time, many flowered inflorescence with thin, overlappping floral bracts and carrying short-lived flowers.
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora of Malaya Vol 1 Holttum 1957; *Opera Botanica #72 Orchid Genera in Thailand XI Cymbidiaeae Seidenfaden 1983 drawing fide; Die Orchideen lieferung 23 Schlechter/Brieger 1990; The Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia and Singapore Seidenfaden & Wood 1992 drawing fide; Orchids of Malaya Segerback 1992 photo fide; The Plants of Mount Kinabalu Vol 2 Orchids Wood Beaman & Beaman 1993; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994; Orchid Monographs Vol 8 Kruiz. & de Vogel 1997 drawing fide; Orchids of Sumatra Comber 2001 photo fide; Orchids of Sarawak Beeman & Wood Beaman etal 2001; Malesian Orchid Journal Vol 8 2011; The Orchids of Mount Kinabalu Vol 2 Wood, Beaman, Lamb, Chu Lun and Beaman 2011 drawing/photo fide; Wild Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia Ong, O'Byrne, Yong & Saw 2011 photo fide; A to Z of South East Asian Orchid Species Vol 2 O'Byrne 2011 photo fide
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