!Psychilis bifida (Aubl.) Sauleda 1988 Photos courtesy of Linda Karlbom in Stockholm/Sweden and her website

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Flower Size

Found on Hispanola as a medium sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with crowded, narrowly conical, tranversely 2 to 4 ringed pseudobulbs carrying 3 apical, basally clasping, linear, acute leaves that blooms on a terminal, erect, slender, terete, to 4' [to 120 cm] long, peduncle ending in a few branched, many flowered fractiflex rachis with many membraneous, narrowly triangular, acuminate floral bracts.

Synonyms Encyclia bifida (Aubl.) Britton & P.Wilson 1930; Encyclia ekmanii (Mansf.) Dod 1983; Encyclia papilionacea (Vahl) Schltr. 1919; Epidendrum auropurpureum Lindl. 1831; *Epidendrum bifidum Aubl.1775; Epidendrum ekmanii Mansf. 1926; Epidendrum papilionaceum Vahl 1793; Epidendrum papilionaceum var. grandiflorum Cogn. 1910; Psychilis amena Raf. 1838

References W3 Tropicos [http://mobot.mobot.org/W3T/Search/vast.html] , Kew Monocot list [ http://www.kew.org/wcsp/home.do ], IPNI [ http://www.us.ipni.org/ipni/plantsearch?request_type=search&output_format=query&ret_defaults=on ] Orchidaceae Antillinae Nir 2000; The Cattleya and Their Relatives Vol 4 Withner 1996;

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