Brassavola subulifolia Lindley 1831 SUBGENUS Brassavola SECTION Cuneilabia Photo courtesy of © Allen Black
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Common Name Heart-lipped Brassavola
Flower Size 1 3/4" [4.15 cm]
From Jamaica, a medium to large sized epiphyte with robust, terete, clavate, 2 to 3 noded, erect or ascending stems carrying a single, apical, erect, often slightly arcuate, shiney, deep green, thickly fleshy, semicylindric, linear-lanceolate, acute, deep;y channeled leaves that is a late summer to fall bloomer on a branched, 6" [15 cm] long racemose inflorescence that carries up to 6 long-lived flowers that smell of citrus only at night. Grows best mounted on wood and likes some shade and watering while in growth and a lessening after the psuedobulbs have matured and the plant has flowered. This plant is actually correctly named Brassavola subulifolia Lindley 1831 which was an obscure earlier publication that came to light more recently.
Synonyms Bletia cordata [Lindley] Rchb.f 1862; Bletia nodosa var cordata [Lindley] Rchb.f 1863; Brassavola cordata Lindley 1836; Brassavola harrisii Jonews 1969; Brassavola nodosa Hkr. not Lindley 1833; Brassavola nodosa subsp. cordata (Lindl.) N.H. Williams; Brassavola sloanei Griseb. 1864; Brassavola stricta Hort 1885; Lysimnia bicolor Raf. 1836
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Xenia Orchidaceae vol 2 Rchb.f 1862 as Bletia cordata; Symbolae Antillanae Vol VI Orchidaceae Urban 1909; Flora of Jamaica Fawcett & Rendle 1910 as B cordata drawing fide; Die Orchideen #10 37-40a tafel 10 Rudolph Schlechter 1971 photo fide; Flora of the Lesser Antilles Garay & Sweet 1974 appendix; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; Manual of Orchids Stewart 1995; AOS Bulletin Vol 65 No 9 1996 photo; The Cattleyas and Their Relatives Vol V Withner 1998 as B subulifolia drawing/photo fide; Botanica's Orchids Laurel Glenn 2002 as B subulifolia; Orchids of Jamaica Gloudon & Tobisch 1995; Orchidaceae Antillanae Nir 2000 as B subulifolia; Illustrated Encyclopedia of Orchids Pridgeon 1982; Flora Of Ecuador # 76 225[2] Dodson & Luer 2005; Flora's Orchids Nash & La Croix 2005 as B subulifoloa; Orchids of Malaya Holtum 1953; Manual of Cultivated Orchids Bechtel, Cribb & Laurent 1982; AOS Bulletin Vol 72 No 5 2003 photo;
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