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(Last Modified On 1/20/2013)
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(Last Modified On 1/20/2013)
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Species
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BIEFRENARIA PICTA (Schltr.) C. Schweinf.
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PlaceOfPublication
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Bot. Mus. Leafl. Harv. Univ. 11:246. 1944.
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Synonym
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Lindleyella picta Schltr. in Fedde Rep. Sp. Nov. Beih. 27:173. 1924.
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Description
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Epiphytic herbs. Pseudobulbs ovoid, laterally compressed, somewhat ridged, 2.5-5 cm. long and 2-2.5 cm. wide, enveloped at the base in 2-3 fibrous imbricating bracts, the apex with a single, long-petiolate, elliptic-lanceolate, plicate, strongly veined, shortly acuminate leaf 38-46 cm. long and 5-6.8 cm. wide. Inflorescences elongate, slender, arching racemes produced from the base of the pseudobulbs. Flowers many, relatively small, on short pedicels, typical of the section LINDLEYELLA. Sepals subequal, spreading, membranaceous, deep red, or red marked with yellow particularly at the base, dorsal sepal free, elliptic- lanceolate, acute, 10-14 mm. long and 3-5 mm. wide, lateral sepals somewhat oblique, elliptic-lanceolate, acute, adnate to the foot of the column, 10-14 mm. long and 4-8 mm. wide. Petals subequal to the dorsal sepal, yellow, spotted red, elliptic-lanceolate, acute, 10-12 mm. long and 4-5 mm. wide. Lip 3-lobed, 10-12 mm. long, red marked with yellow, the base shortly clawed, lateral lobes erect, subfalcate, obliquely obtuse, longer than broad, the anterior margin undulate and crisped; disk between the lateral lobes with a convex, rather obscurely verrucose callus; mid-lobe subreniform or subquadrate, broadly spreading, contracted at the base into an isthmus with a short, suberect, fleshy, obtuse, linguiform callus, the apex obscurely bilobulate, shallowly emarginate, the lateral lobules undulate and crisped. Column semiterete, somewhat arcuate, 6-8 mm. long, produced at the base into a foot. Anther imperfectly 2-celled; pollinia 2, subglobose.
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Distribution
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Panama and Colombia.
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Specimen
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DARIEN: Chepigana District, Cana-Cuasi trail, 800 ft., Terry & Terry 1616.
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Note
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The only record for the genus in North America.
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