Thrixspermum brevibracteatum J.J.Sm. 1928 SECTION Thrixspermum Photo by © Peter O'Byrne and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
Plant in situ Cameron Heights Malaysia Photos by © David Kuehn
Common Name The Short Bracted Thrixspermum
Flower Size 1" [2.5 cm]
Found in penninsular Malaysia and Sumatra in montane forests at elevations around 1600 to 2200 meters as a medium sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte with a sometimes branching, rigid stem carrying short, oblong to strap-shaped, more or less equally and obtusely bilobed apically, reddish and shiny, narrowing below into the tubular sheathed leaves that blooms in the winter and spring on 2 to 3, superposed, 3.2 to 4" [8 to 10 cm] long, longer than the leaves, zig-zagged, quadrangular, laxly successively many flowered inflorescence with three, short, tubular bracts and alternating in 2 rows, short, somewhat clasping the rachis, triangular floral bracts.
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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora Of Malaysia Vol 1 Holttum 1953; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; The Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia and Singapore Seidenfaden & Wood 1992 drawing ok; Orchids of Sumatra Comber 2001
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