Bifrenaria calcarata [Vell.] V. P. Castro 1996 Photo courtesy of © Dalton Holland Baptista © and Orchidstudium

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Common Name or Meaning The Spurred Bifrenaria

Flower Size 1.2" [3 cm]

Found in Bahia, Espiritu Santo, Rio de Janiero and Sao Paulo states of Brazil in montane rainforests at elevations of 300 to 900 meters as a small to medium szied, warm to cool growing epiphyte with conic-tetragon pseudobulbs carrying a single, plicate, erect, ellipitical-elongate, acuminate leaf that blooms in the late spring and early summer on a basal, short, few flowered inflorescence with fragrant flowers

Synonyms Bifrenaria barbosae V.P.Castro 1998

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora Brasilica Vol XII VII 115-147 Hoehne 1953; AOS Bulletin Vol 57 No 2 1988 photo; Icones Orchidacearum Brasilense I Plate 004 Castro & Campacci 2000; Coletanea de Orquideas Brasileiras 2 Encyclias Campacci 2003

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