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|accepted_name=Cleistes bifaria
|accepted_authority=(Fernald) Catling & Gregg
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Lindleyana
|place=7: 65. 1992
|year=1992
}}
|common_names=Smaller spreading pogonia
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Cleistes divaricata var. bifaria
|authority=Fernald
}}
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Orchidaceae;Orchidaceae subfam. Vanilloideae;Orchidaceae tribe Vanilleae;Orchidaceae (tribe Vanilleae) subtribe Pogoniinae;Cleistes;Cleistes bifaria
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Orchidaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subfamily</small>[[Orchidaceae subfam. Vanilloideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>tribe</small>[[Orchidaceae tribe Vanilleae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subtribe</small>[[Orchidaceae (tribe Vanilleae) subtribe Pogoniinae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Cleistes]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Cleistes bifaria]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 26
|mention_page=page 511
|treatment_page=
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>(12–)15–46(–64) cm (in flower). <b>Leaves</b>: blades on flowering stems, (2.5–)45–145 × (4–)6–25 mm. <b>Flowers</b>: sepals 24–55 × (2–)3–5 mm; petals 21–36 × 6–10(–12) mm; lip 21–33(–38) × 13–16 mm, central keel relatively thick, 2.4–2.6 mm wide, very slightly grooved, groove 0.3 mm deep and verrucose or braided with 5–7 discontinuous ridges; column 13–19 mm. <b>Capsules</b> (9–)27–41(–81) × (3.2–)4–8(–8.5) mm. <b>2n</b> = 18.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering Apr–May (coastal plain) –Jul (mountains).
|habitat=Savannas, meadows, openings in oak or pine woodlands, mountain habitat often xeric, in acidic soil
|elevation=0–1000 m
|distribution=Ala.;Fla.;Ga.;Ky.;La.;Miss.;N.C.;S.C.;Tenn.;Va.;W.Va.
|discussion=<p>A station in Barbour County, West Virginia, is 240 km north of other stations and may be a result of introduction (K. B. Gregg 1989).</p><!--
--><p><i>Cleistes bifaria</i> has been treated as a variety of the following species; it is readily separated by its relatively short column, which is correlated with the relatively small size of other floral parts, and differences in lip keel. It is, to a large extent, isolated from the following taxon by geographic distribution and flowering time where their distributions overlap (P. M. Catling and K. B. Gregg 1992).</p>
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|references={{Treatment/Reference
|id=gregg1989a
|text=Gregg, K. B. 1989. Reproductive biology of the orchid Cleistes divaricata (L.) Ames var. bifaria Fernald growing in a West Virginia meadow. Castanea 54: 57–78.
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name=Cleistes bifaria
|author=
|authority=(Fernald) Catling & Gregg
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=Cleistes divaricata var. bifaria
|family=Orchidaceae
|phenology=Flowering Apr–May (coastal plain) –Jul (mountains).
|habitat=Savannas, meadows, openings in oak or pine woodlands, mountain habitat often xeric, in acidic soil
|elevation=0–1000 m
|distribution=Ala.;Fla.;Ga.;Ky.;La.;Miss.;N.C.;S.C.;Tenn.;Va.;W.Va.
|reference=gregg1989a
|publication title=Lindleyana
|publication year=1992
|special status=
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/8f726806613d60c220dc4493de13607dd3150896/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V26/V26_1041.xml
|subfamily=Orchidaceae subfam. Vanilloideae
|tribe=Orchidaceae tribe Vanilleae
|subtribe=Orchidaceae (tribe Vanilleae) subtribe Pogoniinae
|genus=Cleistes
|species=Cleistes bifaria
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