Vrydagzynea bractescens Ridl. 1926
Drawing by © J J Smith and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
Collection sheet by © C B Kloss and Kew's The Plants of the World Website
Common Name The Bracteate Vrydagzynea
Flower Size .26" [6.5mm] long
Found only on Siberut Island in the Mentawai Islands of Sumatra and Borneo at lower elevations up to 1200 meters as a miniature sized, hot to cool growing terrestrial with erect stems carrying 6 to 7, obliquely ovate, apiculate, shortly contracted into the channeled, petiolate base leaves that blooms on an erect, peduncle to 2.4" [6 cm] long, rachis to .44" [1.1 cm] long, densely 7 to 8 flowered inflorescence with lanceolate, acute, as long as the ovaries floral bracts.
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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Plants of Mount Kinabalu Vol 2 Orchids Beaman, Wood, Beaman & Beaman 1993; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994; Orchids of Sumatra J B Comber 2001; Orchids of Sarawak Beaman, Wood & Beaman etal 2001; Orchids of Mount Kinabalu Vol 2 Wood, Beaman, Lamb, Chu Lun and Beaman 2011
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