Macroclinium bicolor (Lindl.) Dodson 1984 Photo by © Jay Pfahl

Plant and Flowers Photo courtesy of Noble Bashor.

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Common Name or Meaning The Two-Colored Macroclinium

Flower Size 3/4" [2.5 cm]

Chiapas Mx., 2012m elev., Near Las Marvillas, as a miniature sized, cool to hot growing epiphyte. Found in Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua and Costa Rica as well as Colombia as a fan shaped, miniature epiphyte with no or minute ovoid, compressed pseudobulbs that are subtended by 4 to 6, equitant imbricate, oblique, lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, acute, ancipitous, fleshy, foliaceous bracts, each carrying a single, reddish to green leaf which blooms in the summer on a pendulous, 4" [10 cm] long, many flowered inflorescence.

Synonyms *Notylia bicolor Lindl. 1842

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum plate 1230 Dodson 1985; Orchid Species Culture: Oncidium, Bakers 2006;