Biermannia bimaculata (King & Pantl.) King & Pantl., Ann. Roy. Bot. Gard. (Calcutta) 8: 200 (1898).
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| Biermannia bimaculata (King & Pantl.) King & Pantl. Photo by | Rituraj Sonowal |
its native range is E. Himalaya to Assam.
Latinh Name:
Biermannia bimaculata (King & Pantl.) King & Pantl.
Synonym:
Sarcochilus bimaculatus King & Pantl.
English Name:
The Two Spotted Biermannia (refers to the lip callus).
Description:
A stem enveloped completely by the leaf bearing sheaths and carrying linear-oblong, weakly falcate, obliquely bilobed apically, sessile, jointed to the base leaves that blooms in the mid spring through mid summer on a basal to axilalry, stout, glabrous, compressed, short, 2 to 3 flowering, lamellate inflorescence with alternate, triangular acute sheaths and broad floral bracts and carrying successive, distichous, fragrant [almond] flowers held towards the apex.
Distribution:
Assam, East Himalaya.
Ecological:
At elevations of 550 to 650 m as a miniature sized, warm growing monopodial epiphyte.
Flowering times:
Blooms in the mid spring through mid summer.
Flower size:
9 mm.
Cultivation:
Type:
Pantling, R. [209], Sikkim K000891388 Unknown type material
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