Bifrenaria clavigera Rchb.f. 1865 SECTION Stenocoryne Photos courtesy of Lourens Grobler ©

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Common Name The Club Carrying Bifrenaria

Flower Size .8" [2 cm]

Found in Rio de Janiero and Espiritu Santo states of Brazil in montane rainforests at elevations of 800 to 1000 meters as a miniature sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with conical-tetragon, slightly compressed pseudobulbs carrying a single, plicate, oblanceolate, acuminate leaf that blooms in the spring on a basal, 2.4" [6 cm] long, rigid, 2 to 3 flowered inflorescence enveloped by amplexicaule bracts and obovate-lanceolate, acuminate floral bracts.

Synonyms Adipe clavigera (Rchb.f.) M.Wolff 1990; Adipe wendlandiana (Kraenzl.) M.Wolff 1990; Bifrenaria wendlandiana (Kraenzl.) Cogn. 1902; Stenocoryne wendlandiana Kraenzl. 1896

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Orchidacearum Brasilensis Castro & Campacci 1977

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