Cryptopus brachiatus H.Perrier 1938

Drawing by © Perrier

MID

Common Name The Bracteate Cryptopus

Flower Size

Found in eastern Madagascar in forests at elevations between 600 to 1200 meters as a miniature sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with an erect, sometimes branching, heavily sinuate. slender stem enveloped completely by heavily striated veined, leaf sheaths carrying 4 to 5, distant, elliptic-oblong, attenuate-obtuse towards both ends, thick, coriaceous leaves that blooms in the mid summer through fall on a lateral, peduncle short to 2" [short to 10 cm] long, rigid, with 2 to 3 short bracts, 2.8 to 6.4" [7 to 16 cm] loosely arranged, lax, successively 5 to 10 flowered inflorescence with short, obtuse floral bracts.

Synonyms

References

W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora of Madagascar Perrier 1939/81 drawing fide; Rudolph Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1B lieferung 16/17/18 945-1128 Brieger 1985; AOS Bulletin Vol 66 No 8 1997; Angraecoid Orchids Stewart, Hermans and Campbell 2006 drawing fide; Orchids of Madagascar Hermans, Du Puy, Cribb & Bosser 2007; Field Guide to the Orchids of Madagascar Cribb & Hermans 2009; Les Orchidees de Madagascar Bosser & Lecoufle 2015 photo fide;

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