Brassia signata Rchb. f. 1881 Photo by © Lourens Grobler.
Another Flower Photo courtesy of Andy's Orchids, Copyright © 2002 All rights reserved
Plant in natural setting Photo courtesy of Weyman Bussey
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Common Name The Marked Brassia
Flower Size 4" [10 cm]
This medium sized, warm to cool growing epiphytic species is found in Guerrero and Oaxaca states of Mexico and Peru? in moist oak and montane rainforests at elevations around 1200 to 2200 meters with oblong to ovate, elongate, laterally compressed pseudobulb partially enveloped basally by 1 to 3 pairs of distichous, imbricating, conduplicate leaf-bearing sheaths and carrying 2, apical, spreading, oblong to oblanceolate, acute, gradually narrowing below into the short, narrow, petiolate base leaves and blooms on a 12" [30 cm] long, suberect to arching, few to several [2 to 10] flowered inflorescence arising through the leaf sheaths on a newly matured pseudobulb with fragrant flowers occuring in the spring and summer.
Synonyms Brassia mexicana C.Schweinf. 1950; Oncidium signatum Rchb. f. 1881
References W3 Tropicos Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchids of Peru Schweinfurth 1960; Orchid Digest Vol 38 No 2 1974 as B mexicana photo ok; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 1004 Hamer & Dodson 1984 as B mexicana drawing fide; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Series II Orchids of Bolivia plate 0304 Dodson & Vasquez 1989 drawing fide; Icones Orchidacearum 5 & 6 Orchids Of Mexico Parts 2 & 3 Plate 537 Hagsater, Soto 2002 drawing fide; Orchid Species Culture: Oncidium, Bakers 2006; Orchid Species of Peru Zelenko Bermudez 2009 photo fide
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