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Orchid Species: Gomesa bifolia

(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)

Gomesa bifolia is an orchid species identified by (Sims) M.W.Chase & N.H.Williams in 2009.
Genus
Gomesa (Gom.)
Grex
bifolia
(name currently accepted by Kew)
Parents
Species
Author
(Sims) M.W.Chase & N.H.Williams
Year
2009
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ORIGIN: Found in Bolivia, Parana, Santa Catarina and Rio Grande do Sul Statees of Brazil, Uruguay and Argentina in hot lowlands along shady streams, to cooler montane forests at elevations of 100 to 800 meters.

DESCRIPTION: Small sized, cool growing epiphyte with ovoid or ovoid-oblong, deeply sulcate with age pseudobulbs carrying 1 or rarely 2 apical, slightly coriaceous, linear-oblong, acute leaves that blooms in the late winter and early spring on an axillary, often nodding, 9 to 12 [20 to 35 cm] long, few to several [5 to 20] flowered, racemose or rarely paniculate inflorescence with rigid, narrowly triangular, acute floral bracts occurring in the late winter and early spring.

FLOWER SIZE: 3/4 to 1 inch [2 to 2.5 cm] -- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
Other Names
Genus Name Genus Grex Name Year Author
Add+ Ampliglossum Amg bifolium 2006 (Sims) Campacci
Add+ Gomesa Gom chrysothyrsus 2009 (Rchb.f. ex R.Warner) M.W.Chase & N.H.Williams
Add+ Oncidium Onc celsissimum 1844 Hoffmanns.
Add+ Oncidium Onc beyrodtianum 1910 Schltr.
Add+ Oncidium Onc bifolium 1812 Sims
Add+ Oncidium Onc celsianum 1844 A.Rich.
Add+ Oncidium Onc chrysothyrsus 1865 Rchb.f. ex R.Warner
Add+ Oncidium Onc maculosum 1837 Lindl.
Add+ Coppensia Cpp bifolia 1835 (Sims) Dumort.
Most awarded/recent cultivars: Onc. bifolium 'Cindy Sellon' (1987) Onc. bifolium 'Yuqueri' (1968) Onc. bifolium 'Lucy' (1967)
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