Panarica brassavolae [Rchb.f] Withner & Harding 2004 Photo courtesy of Andy's Orchids Copyright © 2002 All rights reserved.
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Common Name The Brassavola-Like Panarica [refers to the flower shape]
Flower Size to 4" [to 10 cm]
Found in Mexico to Nicaragua and Costa Rica at altitudes of 900 to 2500 meters in wet pine oak and evergreen forest on larger branches and tree trunks as a medium sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte and occasional lithophyte with elongate, ovoid, bifoliate pseudobulbs with papery, basal bracts and a elliptic oblong, obtuse leaf that becomes loosely conduplicate below into the base and blooms in the summer and fall on an apical, erect, to 1 1/2' [45 cm] long, few to many [6 to 9] flowered, racemose inflorescence arising on a newly matured pseudobulb subtended by a large brown sheath and having faintly fragrant, fleshy flowers.
Synonyms Encyclia brassavolae (Rchb. f.) Dressler 1961; Encyclium brassavolae [Rchb.f] Lindley ex Stein 1892; *Epidendrum brassavolae Rchb. f.1852; Hormidium brassavolae [Rchb.f] Brieger 1877; Prosthechea brassavolae (Rchb. f.) W. E. Higgins 1997; Pseudencyclia brassavolae (Rchb.f.) V.P.Castro & Chiron 2003
References W3 Tropicos [http://mobot.mobot.org/W3T/Search/vast.html] , Kew Monocot list [ http://www.kew.org/wcsp/home.do ], IPNI [ http://www.us.ipni.org/ipni/plantsearch?request_type=search&output_format=query&ret_defaults=on Flora Novo-Galaciana Vol 16 McVaugh 1985; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 1421 Atwood 1992 as Encyclia brassavolae; Cattleyas and Their Relatives Vol 7 Withner 2002; Icones Orchidacearum 5 - 6 Orchids of Mexico Part 2 - 3 Plate 649 Hagsater & Soto 2002
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