Plants in the genus Bromheadia are evergreen, terrestrial or epiphytic, sympodial, herbs with leafy stems on a short, creeping rhizome.

[2][3][4][5] The genus Bromheadia was first formally described in 1841 by John Lindley and the description was published in Edwards's Botanical Register.

[1][6] The genus name (Bromheadia) honours Edward Bromhead "whose investigations of the natural affinities of plants are well known to systematic Botanists".

[6] Orchids in the genus Bromheadia are found in the region stretching from Myanmar and Vietnam south to Java and east to New Guinea and the Philippines, with a few species extending to Sri Lanka and Queensland.

[8] However, no further taxonomic work has acted on this suggestion so the genus remains with two natural sections: