Bipinnula biplumata (L.f.) Rchb.f. 1883
Photo by © Agustin Sanguinetti and The Argentine Sistema de Informacion de Biodiversidad Website
Drawing by © Cogniaux and The Wikimedia Commons Website
Common Name The Two Feathered Bipinnula
Flower Size
Found in Brazil, Uruguay and northeasten Argentina in humid lowland rocky grasslands and riversides as a miniature to small sized, cold growing terrestrial or lithophyte with ovate-lanceolate, acute, basally clasping leaves that are not present at flowering, blooming in the spring on an erect, short, single flowered inflorescence.
Synonyms *Arethusa biplumata L.f. 1782; Bipinnula bonariensis Spreng. 1826; Bipinnula commersonii Lindl. 1827
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora Brasilica Vol XII I Hoehne 1940 drawing fide; Iconografia de Orchidaceae Do Brasil Hoehne 1949 drawing fide; Orchidaceae Brasilenses Band 1 Pabst & Dungs 1975 drawing fide; Genera Orchidacearum Vol 3 Orchioideae Pt 2 Vanilloideae Pridgeon, Cribb, Chase and Rasmussen 2003; 100 Orquideas Argentinas Freuler 2005 photo fide;
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