!Helonoma bifida (Ridl.) Garay 1980 publ. 1982

Collection Sheet Drawing by Dunsterville & Garay/Collection sheet by © Jany Renz and the

Full shade Cool Cold Winter Spring

Common Name The Two Part Helonoma

Flower Size .05" [1 mm]

Found in Guyana, Venezuela and northern Brazil at elevations of 1800 to 2500 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cool to cold growing terrestrial orchid with reticulate, elliptical, obtuse, gradually narrowing below into the channeled, elongate, petiolate base leaves that blooms in the winter and spring on an erect, 16" [40 cm] long, several to many flowered inflorescence with well spaced, acuminate-triangular bracts.

"Similar to Helonoma chiropterae and both species grow sympatrically. H bifida is distinguished by the lip form which is somewhat longer with a ligulate apical part, with involute margins. Both H bifida and H chiroptera are easily distinguished from Beloglottis bicaudata and !Beloglottis costaricensis by having bifid apical parts of the tepals and a short, dense inflorescence." Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2019

Synonyms Beadlea bifida (Ridl.) Garay & Dunst. 1979; Beloglottis bifida (Ridl.) Szlach.1996; Cyclopogon bifidus (Ridl.) Schltr. 1920; *Spiranthes bifida Ridl. 1887

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

Timehri 5: 205 Ridley 1886 as Spiranthes bifida

Beih. Bot. Centralbl. 37(2): 386 Schlechter 1920 as Cyclopogon bifidus

Flora de Venezuela Foldats Volumen XV Part 1 1969 as Spiranthes bifida drawing hmm;

Orchidaceae Brasilenses Band 1 Pabst & Dungs 1975 as Cyclopogon bifida drawing fide;

Orchids of Venezuela, An Illustrated Field Guide Vol 1 Dunsterville & Garay 1979 as Beadlea bifida drawing fide;

* Bot. Mus. Leafl. 28: 328 Garay 1980 publ. 1982

Fragm. Florist. Geobot. 41: 702 Szlach 1996 as Beloglottis bifida

Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Lieferung 40 2000;

Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol 2: 125 fig 112 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2019 as Beloglottis bifida drawing fide

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