Biermannia bimaculata (King & Pantl.) King & Pantl. 1898

Another angle Photos by © Milan Vágner

Common Name or Meaning The Two Spotted Biermannia [refers to the lip callus]

Flower Size .25" [8mm]

Found in the eastern Himalayas as a miniature sized, hot to warm growing monopodial epiphyte with a stem enveloped completely by the leaf bearing sheaths and carrying linear-oblong, weakly falcate, obliquely bilobed apically, sessile, jointed to the base leaves that blooms on a basal to axilalry, stout, glabrous, compressed, short, 2 to 3 flowering, lamellate inflorescence with alternate, triangular acute sheaths and broad floral bracts and carrying successive distichous flowers held towards the apex

Synonyms *Sarcochilus bimaculatus King & Pantl. 1895

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchids of Bhutan Pearce & Cribb 2002 drawing