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Orchid Species: Bifrenaria inodora
(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)
Bifrenaria inodora is an orchid species identified by Lindl. in 1843.
ORIGIN: A sometimes fragrant, medium sized, hot to cool growing epiphyte with 4 angled pseudobulbs carrying a single, tough, dark green, plicate leaf that blooms in the late spring through summer in Brazil on a short to 3 [7.5 cm], basal, racemose, semi-erect inflorescence with up to 2 heavy, waxy, fragrant or not, long-lasting flowers. Found in Brazil in the southern states of Espirito Santo to Rio Grande do Sul in montane rainforests at elevations of 50 to 1000 meters.
DESCRIPTION: A sometimes fragrant, medium sized, hot to cool growing epiphyte with 4 angled pseudobulbs carrying a single, tough, dark green, plicate leaf that blooms in the late spring through summer in Brazil on a short to 3 [7.5 cm], basal, racemose, semi-erect inflorescence with up to 2 heavy, waxy, fragrant or not, long-lasting flowers. Found in Brazil in the southern states of Espirito Santo to Rio Grande do Sul in montane rainforests at elevations of 50 to 1000 meters and in general can be differentiated from other Bifrenaria because of the long midlobe which is twice as long as wide.
FLOWER SIZE: 3 inches [7.5 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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