Agrostophyllum brevipes King & Pantl. 1890

Plant Photo by Milan Vágner ©,

Common Name The Short Column Foot Agrostophyllum

Flower Size .1 to .15" [3 to 4 mm]

Found in the eastern Himalayas, Bhutan, Sikkim, Laos and Thailand in tropical valleys at elevations up to 1500 meters as a small to medium sized, warm growing epiphyte with stems arising from a slender rhizome enveloped by linear sheaths and carrying 3 to 4 , apical, alternate, linear-oblong, emarginate, subacute, sessile baslly leaves that blooms in the spring on a globose, envelopped by leaf bases, densely many flowered, .4 to .6" [1 to 1.5 cm] long inflorescence

I am very suspicious of this determination as all references refer to the plant as not having pseudobulbs but that they are stem-like [this may be correct as evinced by Seidenfadden and Smitinand's drawing see ref.] and the inflorescence is many flowered with no mention of successive single flowering habit. I await better information.

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Orchids of Sikkim-Himalaya Part 1 King & Pantling 1898 drawing fide; The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitinand 1959 as A majus [drawing pg 320] The Orchids of Bhutan Pearce and Cribb 2002; Orchids of India A Glimpse Misra 2007

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