Sophronitis bicolor F.E.L.Miranda 1991 Photo by © Ron Parsons and his Flower Shots website

Part shadeWarm to Cool Spring

Common Name The 2 Colored Sophronitis

Flower Size 2.4" [6 cm]

Found in Espiritu Santo Brazil as a miniature sized, cool growing epiphyte with oblong pseudobulbs carrying a single, suberect, elliptic, acute, elongate petiolate base leaf that blooms on a newly arising pseduobulb witha terminal, erect, single flowered inflorescence that is just longer than the leaf

Synonyms Cattleya dichroma Van den Berg 2008; Hadrolaelia bicolor (F.E.L.Miranda) Chiron & V.P.Castro 2002

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Cattleyas and Their Relatives Withner Vol 3 1990 photo ok;

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