Bromheadia aporoides Reichb.f. 1878 SECTION Aporodes Photo courtesy of Andy's Orchids, Copyright © 2002 All rights reserved
Photos courtesy of David Jubineau And His Bulbophyllum & Co. Website
Common Name The Aporum-Like Bromheadia
Flower Size 3/4" [2 cm]
Found in Myanamar, Thailand, Malaysia, Laos and Borneo in lowland forests as a miniature sized, warm to cold growing epiphyte with leafy cane-like, elongate, leafy stems with distichous, coriaceous, scimitar-shaped, acute leaves that are articulated into the clasping basal leaf sheaths that blooms in the summer on a terminal, simple or branched inflorescence holding the 1 to 3 flowers in opposing ranks and having stiff, persistent floral bracts carrying resupinate, medium sized flowers with only a few open at a time.
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Orchids of Burma Grant 1895/95 as B aperioides; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994; A Field Guide to the Wild Orchids of Thailand Vaddhanaphuti 2001; Orchids of Malaya Holtum 1953; The Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia Seidenfaden & Woods 1992; The Orchidaceae of German New Guinea Schlechter 1982
