Brassia wageneri Rchb. f. 1845 Photo by © Lourens Grobler.

Inflorescence Photo courtesy of David Morris and Clackamas Orchids Home Page

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Common Name Wagner's Brassia [Germna Orchid Collector in Venezuela 1800's]

Flower Size 3 to 4" [12 cm]

This bifoliate, small to medium sized, warm to cool growing, epiphytic species is found in Venezuela, Colombia, Peru and Ecuador in cool, wet montane forests at elevations of 480 to 1800 meters with elongate, tapered, strongly compressed, smooth, light green pseudobulbs subtended by a basal leafless sheath and an upper leaf bearing sheath and carrying 2 apical, lanceolate, acuminate conduplicate towards the base leaves that blooms in the spring on a basal through a leaf sheath, to 8" [20 cm] long, suberect to arching, terete, green, several [8 to 15] flowered, racemose inflorescence that is shorter than the leaves and arising on a mature pseudobulb.

Synonyms Brassia bicolor Rolfe 1892; *Oncidium wageneri (Rchb. f.) Rchb. f. 1866; Brassia cryptophthalma Rchb. f. 1879

References W3 Tropicos Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; AOS Bulletin Vol 26 No 10 1957 drawing; Venezuelan Orchids Illustrated Vol 1 Dunsterville & Garay 1959; Flora de Venezuela Foldats Volumen XV Part 5 1970; AOS Bulletin Vol 49 No 12 1980 photo; Orchid Species Culture: Oncidium, Bakers 2006; Orchids of Venezuela; Field Guide to Identification Dunsterville & Garay 1979; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Series II Orchids of Peru Plate 0015 Dodson & Bennett 1989; Icones Orchidacearum Peruviarum Bennet & Christenson 1995; Orchids of Tachira Fernandez 2003; Orchid Species of Peru Zelenko Bermudez 2009 photo fide

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