Brassia chloroleuca Barb. Rodr. 1877 Photo courtesy of Patricia Harding

Common Name The Green and White Brassia

Flower Size 3 1/4" x 6 to 7" [8 cm x 15 to 17.5 cm]

Found in Northern Brazil in low elevation, hot and humid, marshes and tropical forests as a small sized, hot growing epiphyte with smooth, bright green pseudobulbs carrying broad, spreading, conduplicate below into the base leaf that blooms in the summer on a curved, flexuous, terete, to 12" + [30 cm] long, several flowered inflorescence arising on a newly matured pseudobulb and having several, evenly spaced, pale green bracts along its length .

Flower Size Brassia attenuata H.G.Jones 1969

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Encylopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; Orchid Species Culture: Oncidium, Bakers 2006; Orchidaceae Brasilense Pabst & Dungs 1976; Las Orquideas del Peru Izerskyy & Bezverhov 2011 photo fide

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