Brassia arachnoidea Barb. Rodr. 1877 Photo courtesy of Jay Pfahl.

to Southern Hemisphere

Common Name The Spider-Like Brassia

Flower Size 4" to 5" [10 to 12.5 cm]

Found in extreme western Brazil in the territory of Acre as a medium sized, hot to cool growing epiphyte with oblong, laterally, compressed, ancipitous, smooth in youth, sulcate with age psuedobulbs partially enveloped by distichous, imbricating leafless sheaths and carrying two, leathery, oblong to strap-shaped, erect to spreading, acute, conduplicate below into the petiole-like base leaves that blooms in the fall in the southern hemisphere on a arching to flexuous, to 16" [to 40 cm] long, to 10 flowered, racemose inflorescence arising on a newly matured pseudobulb and has a few, widely spaced, close, whitish, meambaneous sheaths.

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchidaceae Brasilense Pabst & Dungs 1972; Orchid Species Culture: Oncidium, Bakers 2006;