Sophronitis bicolor F.E.L.Miranda 1991
Photo by © Eric Kataoka and his Flickr Orchid Photo website
Photo by © Ron Parsons
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Common Name The 2 Colored Sophronitis
Flower Size 2.6" [6.5 cm]
Found in Espirito Santo state of Brazil in windy cloud forests at elevations of 1200 to 1525 meters as a miniature sized, cool growing epiphyte with oblong pseudobulbs carrying a single, suberect, elliptic, acute, elongate petiolate base leaf that blooms in the late spring and again occassionally in the fall on a newly arising pseduobulb with a terminal, erect, to 4.4" [11 cm] long including the pedicel and ovary, single flowered inflorescence that is just longer than the leaf
Synonyms Cattleya dichroma Van den Berg 2008; Hadrolaelia bicolor (F.E.L.Miranda) Chiron & V.P.Castro 2002
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Orchidee (Hamburg) 42: 227 F E L Miranda 1991
Cattleyas and Their Relatives Withner Vol 3 1993 photo ok;
Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1C lieferung 42 - 43 pg 2626 - 2762 Brieger 2001;
Richardiana 2: 20 Chiron & V P Castro 2002 as Hadrolaelia bicolor;
Neodiversity 3: 6 Van den Berg 2008 as Cattleya dichroma;
Orchidees Du Bresil As Orchideas da Serra Do Castello Vol 3 Chiron & Bolsanello 2013 as Hadrolaelia bicolor drawing/photo fide;
A Compendium of Miniature Orchid Species Parsons & Gerritsen 2013 as Cattleya dichroma photo fide
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