Ada pozoi Dodson & N.H. Williams 1984 Photo courtesy of Eric Hunt, plant from Eucagenera

Inflorescence Photo courtesy of David Morris Photo courtesy of Eric Hunt, plant from Eucagenera

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Common Name or Meaning Pozo's Ada [Ecuadorian discoverer of species current]

Flower Size 2 3/8" [6 cm]

Found in eastern Ecuador and northern Peru in montane cloud forests at elevations of 1500 to 2350 meters as a medium sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with slender, flattened, thin pseudobulbs enveloped completely by 5 to 9 leaf-bearing sheaths and 5 to 7 non foliaceous basal sheaths carrying a single, apical, narrowly oblong elliptic, acute apically leaf and narrowing to a conduplicate, subpetiolate base that blooms in the spring through fall on an axillary, erect to arching, 12" [30cm] long, several [7 to 9] flowered inflorescence arising on a mature pseudobulb.

Synonyms Brassia pozoi (Dodson & N.H.Williams) Senghas 1997

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum plate 904 Dodson 1984 drawing ok; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Series II Orchids of Peru Plate 0005 Dodson & Bennett 1989 drawing ok; Native Ecuadorian orchids vol 1 Dodson 1993 drawing fide; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1C lieferung 33 - 36 2057 - 2308 Brieger 1997 as Brassia pozoi; Flora Of Ecuador # 76 225[2] Dodson & Luer 2005; Orchid Species Culture: Oncidium, Bakers 2006; Orchid Species of Peru Zelenko Bermudez 2009 photo fide; Orquideas de Zamora Chinchipe Tomo 1 Epidendroideae Jimenez & Jimenez 2014 photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 81 #2 2017 as Brassia pozoi photo fide;

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