Chysis bruennowiana Rchb. f. & Warsz. 1857 Photo courtesy of of Carlos Hajek and his Peruvian Orchid Page

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Common Name Bruennow's Chysis

Flower Size 1 1/5" [3 cm]

A medium sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte that is found from Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru and occurs at elevations of 600 to 1200 meters on tree trunks in shady, damp, wet, montane forests with a creeping rhizome carrying slightly fusiform, pendant, cane-like pseudobulbs enveloped basally by distichous, foliaceous sheaths and carrying thin, deciduous, plicate, elliptic-ligulate, acute leaves and blooms on a pendulous to arching, basal, short to 7 1/5" [18 cm], racemose, several flowered inflorescence arising on a maturing pseudobulb and occurring in the spring and summer.

Synonyms Chysis aurea var. maculata Hook. 1851; Chysis costaricensis Schltr. 1923 ; Chysis maculata (Hook.) Fowlie 1971

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Lankester's Epidendra Website CR ; *Bot. Zeitung. Berlin 15: 157. 1857; Repert. Sp. Nov. Regni. Veg. Beih. 19: 297. Costa Rica Schlechter 1923; AOS Bulletin Vol 27 No 6 1958 as C aurea var maculata; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965 as C aurea fma maculata; ; Field Guide to the Orchids of Costa Rica and Panama Dressler 1993 as C costaricensis; Orchids of Peru Williams 1980 as C aurea var maculata; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 1 COS 1990 photo ok; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 1 Dodson & Escobar 1993 drawing/photo ok; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids as C aurea fma Maculata; Orchids of Peru vol 3 Schweinfurth 1960; Las Orquideas De El Salvador Vol 3 Hamer 1981 drawing ok; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 414 Dodson 1982 drawing ok; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 1207 Hamer & Dodson 1985 as C costaricensis drawing ok; Vanishing Beauty; Native Costa Rican Orchids Vol 1 Pupulin 2005; Flora Of Ecuador # 76 225[2] Dodson & Luer 2005 drawing ok; Orchid Species of Peru Zelenko Bermudez 2009 photo fide

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