Sarcoglottis biflora (Vell.) Schltr.1920 Drawing by © by Friedrich Reinhardt-Verlag, Basel, Switzerland and the Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbarium

Common Name or Meaning The 2 Flowered Sarcoglottis

Flower Size 3/8" [9 mm]

Found in Brazil as a small sized, terrestrial orchid with a basal rosette of ovate, acute, abruptly narrowing below into the clasping base leaves that blooms on an erect, terminal, 10" [25 cm] long, few flowered inflorescence with a few, spaced, lanceolate, acute bracts and lanceolate, acute, as long as the ovary floral bracts

Synonyms Sarcoglottis lithophila (Barb.Rodr.) Barb.Rodr. 1877; *Serapias biflora Vell. 1831; Spiranthes biflora (Vell.) Cogn. 1895; Spiranthes lithophila Barb.Rodr.1877

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora Brasilica Vol XII II Hoehne 1945 drawing fide; Orchids of The Brazilian Central Plateau Menezes 2004 photo fide

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