Bifrenaria verboonenii G.A.Romero & V.P.Castro 2000
Inflorescence Photos by © Vittorino Castro
Common Name Verboone's Bifrenaria [Brazilian Collector of Species Current]
Flower Size 2.4" [6 cm]
Found in Minas Gerias Brazil in montane rainforests at elevations of 1000 to 1400 meters as a small sized, warm to cool growing, rupicolus orchid with conic-tetragonic, yellowish green, apically dark brown ringed pseudobulb carrying a single, apical, plicate, erect, narrowly elliptic, acuminate, gradually narrowing below into the short, conduplicate, petiolate base leaf that blooms in the fall on a basal, erect, stiff, 9 3/4" 23 cm] long, 2 to 3 flowered, terete inflorescence with sparse amplexicaul bracts and small, broadly lanceolate, acuminate floral bracts.
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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1C lieferung 44-45 pg 2763 - 2898 Brieger 2001; Coletanea de Orquideas Brasileiras 2 Encyclias Campacci 2003; Icones Orchidacearum Brasiliensis II Plate 122 Castro & Romero 2006 as Baptistonia [Misapplication, see back of page] verbooneii drawing/photo fide
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