Brassavola acaulis Lindl. 1851-2 SUBGENUS Brassavola SECTION Cuneilabia
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Common Name The Stemless Brassavola
Flower Size 2 3/4 to 3 1/4" [7 to 8 cm]
Found in Mexico, Guatemala, Costa Rica and Panama in moist foothills as a medium sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with pendant short stems carrying a single, terete, fleshy, acute, dark green flushed with red leaf and flowers, like Cattleya walkeriana, with the rhizome producing one stem and leaf and then the next an inflorescence arising on a mature pseudobulb that carries a single to 5, nocturnally fragrant, waxy flowers and occurs in the later spring to early summer from May to July.
Synonyms Bletia acaulis (Lindl.) Rchb. f. 1862; Bletia lineata (Hook. f.) Rchb. f. 1862; Brassavola lineata Hook. f. 1853 ; Brassavola mathieuana Klotzsch 1853
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Xenia Orchidaceae vol 2 Rchb.f 1862 as Bletia acaulis; Xenia Orchidaceae vol 2 Rchb.f 1862 as Bletia lineata; Repert. Sp. Nov. Regni. Veg. Beih. 17: 48. Panama Schlechter 1922 as Brassavola lineata; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; Die Orchideen #10 37-40a tafel 10 Rudolph Schlechter 1971 photo fide; Manual of Orchids Stewart 1995; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 1404 Mora & Atwood 1992 drawing fide; The Cattleyas and Their Relatives Vol V Withner 1998 drawing fide; ; Field Guide to the Orchids of Costa Rica and Panama Dressler 1993; Orchids of Guatemala and Belize Ames & Correll 1985; Orchids of Panama Williams 1980; AOS Bulletin Vol 69 No 5 2000 photo; AOS Bulletin Vol 73 No 7 2004 photo; Vanishing Beauty, Native Costa Rican Orchids Vol 1 Pupulin 2005; Orchids of Malaya Holtum 1953
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