Bifrenaria wittigii (Rchb.f.) Hoehne 1953 Photo courtesy of © Dalton Holland Baptista © and Orchidstudium

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Common Name or Meaning Wittig's Bifrenaria [German Plant collector in Brazil 1900's]

Flower Size 1.6" [4 cm]

Found in Espiritu Santo and Rio de Janiero states of Brazil at elevations of 1000 to 2000 meters as a medium sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with conic-tetragon pseudobulbs carrying a single, apical, erect, plicate, elliptical-elongate, acuminate leaf that blooms in the spring and summer on a basal, 3.2" [8 cm] long, few flowered inflorescence and carrying fragrant showy flowers

Similar to B tetragona but differs in the velvety midlobe of the lip which in B tetragona it is glabrous.

Synonyms Cydoniorchis wittigii (Rchb.f.) Senghas 1994; *Lycaste wittigii Rchb.f. 1878

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora Brasilica Vol XII VII 115-147 Hoehne 1953; Icones Orchidacearum Plate 020 Castro & Campacci 2000 drawing fide; Coletanea de Orquideas Brasileiras 2 Encyclias Campacci 2003;

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