Brassia aurorae D.E.Benn. 1992 Photo by © Nicoli courtesy of Infojardin Blogsite
Another Flower Photo courtesy of of Carlos Hajek and his Peruvian Orchid Page
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Common Name The Reddish Brassia
Flower Size 3" wide x 5" tall [6 cm x 12.5 cm]
A robust, trifoliate terrestrial from Peru on open grassy slopes at elevations of 1800 to 1900 meters with ovoid-oblong, lightly compressed, tapering apically pseudobulbs with three nodes each and partially enveloped basally by 3 to 5 pairs of distichous, imbricating, conduplicate, leafless below and leaf-bearing above sheaths giving rise to a single, apical, narrowly lanceolate, acute, narrowed bewlow into the conduplicate, short, narrow, petiolate base leaf that blooms on a erect, lateral from the basal leaf axil, bracteate, 26" to 36" [70 to 90 cm] long inflorescence with several [12 to16] flowers occuring in the late winter and spring and arising on a mature pseudobulb as the new growth arises.
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchid Species Culture: Oncidium, Bakers 2006; Icones Orchidacearum Peruviarum 005 Bennet & Christenson 1993 drawing fide; Orchid Species of Peru Zelenko Bermudez 2009 photo fide
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