Binotia brasiliensis (Rolfe) Rolfe 1905 Photo courtesy of Wilma Braga

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Common Name The Brazilian Binotia

Flower Size -2" [-5 cm]

Found only in Rio de Janiero and Sao Paulo states of Brazil as a miniature to small sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte and rarely lithophyte with ovoid, compressed pseudobulbs partially enveloped basally by short, leafless sheaths and carrying 2, lanceolate-ligulate, acute, rather leathery, leaves and blooms in the summer on an axillary, gracefully arching, often branched, to 18" [to 45 cm] long, rather loosely 6 to 13 flowered inflorescence.

Synonyms *Cochlioda brasiliensis Rolfe 1904; Gomesa binotii auct. 1904; Gomesa margaritae Pabst 1967

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchid Species Culture: Oncidium, Bakers 2006; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1982; Orchidaceae Brasilense Pabst & Dungs 1970;