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Orchid Species: Leptotes bicolor

(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)

Leptotes bicolor is an orchid species identified by Lindl. in 1833.
Genus
Leptotes (Lpt.)
Grex
bicolor
(name currently accepted by Kew)
Parents
Species
Author
Lindl.
Year
1833
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ORIGIN: From Brazil and Paraguay in subtropical rainforest and coastal mountains at elevations of 500 to 900 meters.

DESCRIPTION: A beautiful, miniature, warm growing epiphyte with terete pencil-like pseudobulbs covered basally by several membraneous sheaths and has a single, apical, erect or spreading, subcylindric, acute, deeply grooved dorsally, shiny, dark green leaf, and large, 1 to 3, successively opening, fragrant flowers on a 3/4 [2 cm] long, inflorescence shorter than and arising from the base of the leaves, occurring in the late winter or early spring.

FLOWER SIZE: 1 1/2 to 2 inches [3.5 to 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+ Leptotes Lpt glaucophylla 1843 Hoffmanns.
Add+ Leptotes Lpt serrulata 1838 Lindl.
Add+ Tetramicra Ttma serrulata 1887 (Lindl.) G.Nicholson
Add+ Tetramicra Ttma bicolor 1883 (Lindl.) Rolfe
Most awarded/recent cultivars: Lpt. bicolor 'Widderchen' (3 awards from 2010 to 2013) Lpt. bicolor 'Big Ben' (3 awards from 2009 to 2011) Lpt. bicolor 'Gisela' (2 awards in 2017) Lpt. bicolor 'Natasha' (2 awards in 2008) Lpt. bicolor 'Gem' (2 awards in 2002) Lpt. bicolor 'Piping Rock' (2 awards from 1994 to 1995) Lpt. bicolor 'Goodstuff' (2019) Lpt. bicolor 'Malena' (2018) Lpt. bicolor 'Springwater' (2018) Lpt. bicolor 'Retzbach' (2018) Lpt. bicolor 'Cindy' (2017) Lpt. bicolor 'Lil Miss Jojo' (2017) Lpt. bicolor 'Fireworks' (2017) Lpt. bicolor 'Liina' (2017) Lpt. bicolor 'Andi K' (2017) Lpt. bicolor 'Karl-Peter Firneisen' (2017) Lpt. bicolor 'Windy Hill' (2016) Lpt. bicolor 'Swamprad' (2016) Lpt. bicolor 'Harley Koch' (2016) Lpt. bicolor 'Sheri A' (2016)
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