Bromheadia divaricata Ames & C.Schweinf. 1920 SECTION Bromheadia Photo by © Peter Maxwell and his Flickr Orchid Photo Website

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Common Name The Divaricate Bromheadia [refers to the many branched inflorescence]

Flower Size 1.8" [4.5 cm]

Found in Sabah Borneo in mossy lower montane forests at elevations of 2100 to 3100 meters as a large sized, cold growing, epiphyte on logs or terrestrial on rocks with a flattened leaf bearing stem carrying many, coriaceous, elliptic to obovate, tapering strongly at both ends, amplexicaul, unequally bilobed apically, basally clasping leaves that blooms in the winter, again in the late spring and again in the fall on a terminal, paniculate, to 8" [to 20 cm] long, with lateral branches of 3" [7.5 cm] long, laxly, successively few to many flowered inflorescence with imbricating, triangular bracts towards the apex through which the flowers appear

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchid Monographs Vol 8 Kruizinga,Scheindlin & De Vogel 1997 drawing fide; The Orchids of Mount Kinabalu Vol 1 Wood, Beaman, Lamb, Chu Lun and Beaman 2011 drawing/photo fide; The Orchids of Mount Kinabalu Vol 2 Wood, Beaman, Lamb, Chu Lun and Beaman 2011;

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