Bifrenaria racemosa [Hkr.] Lindl. 1843 Photo courtesy of Patricia Harding

to

Common Name or Meaning The Racemose Bifrenaria

Flower Size 1" [2.5 cm]

Found in Rio de Janiero, Sao Paulo, Espiritu Santo and Minas Gerais states of Brazil as a small sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with ovoid, compressed, slightly four angled pseudobulbs carrying a single, apical, lanceolate, plicate leaf that is condulplicate below and blooms on a basal, racemose, few to several flowered inflorescence arising from a mature pseudobulb and occuring in the fall

Synonyms Adipe fulva Rafin. 1836; Adipe melanopoda (Klotzsch) M.Wolff 1990 ; Adipe racemosa Rafin 1836; Bifrenaria melanopoda Klotzsch 1855 ; Colax racemosus Spreng 1828; *Maxillaria racemosa Hook 1827; Stenocoryne melanopoda (Klotzsch) Hoehne 1944; Stenocoryne racemosa [Hook] Kraenzl. 1896; Xylobium racemosum (Hook.) Sweet 1830

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1982 as Stenocoryne racemosa; Flora Brasilica Hoehne 1953 as Stenocoryne racemosa; Orchidaceae Brasilense Pabst & Dungs 1970; Orchids of Brazil McQueen 1993;