Brassia pumila Lindley 1845 Photo courtesy of Jay Pfahl

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Common Name The Dwarf Brassia

Flower Size 5" [12 cm]

Found from Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana and Brazil as a bifoliate, small sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte in wet montane forests at an altitude of 550 to 1000 meters with narrowly ovate-elliptic, compressed paeudobulbs enveloped basally by several, imbricate, scarious, non foliaceous bracts and having 2, oblanceolate, attenuate to the conduplicate base, with a prominent mid vein, carinate leaves that blooms on an axillary, erect to arcuate, 10 to 12" [25 to 30 cm] long, racemose inflorescence that is shorter than the leaves and appears in the fall and winter on a newly maturing pseudobulb with 7 to 8 spreading flowers. Sometimes cited as a synonym of Brassia lanceana.

Synonyms Brassia lanceana var. pumila [Lindl.]Lindl. 1854; Oncidium suaveolens var pumilum [Lindl.] Rchb.f 1863

References W3 Tropicos Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Venezuelan Orchids Illustrated Vol 6 Dunsterville & Garay 1976 drawing fide; Orchids of Venezuela ; An Illustrated Field Guide Vol 1 Dunsterville & Garay 1979 drawing fide; Orchid Species Culture: Oncidium, Bakers 2006 as B lanceana; Manual of Orchids Stewart 1995 as B lanceana; Icones Orchidacearum Peruvianum Plate 213 Bennet & Christenson 1995 drawing ok; Field Guide to the Orchids of Costa rica and Panama Dressler 1993; Native Colombian Orhids COS Vol 1 1991; Native Colombian Orhids COS Vol 5 1994; Native Ecuadorian Orchids vol 1 1994; Illustrated Encyclopedia of Orchids Pridgeon 1982; Flora's Orchids Nash & La Croix 2005; Manual of Cultivated Orchids Bechtel, Cribb & Laurent 1982; Orchids of Venezuela [An illustrated field guide] Vol. 1 Ramiro and Carnevali 2000 drawing fide; Vanishing Beauty Native Costa Rican Orchids Vol 1 2005; Orchids of Peru Schweinfurth 1960; Orchid Species of Peru Zelenko Bermudez 2009 photo fide

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