Brassavola ceboletta Rchb.f 1855 SUBGENUS Sessililabia SECTION Conchoglossa
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Common Name Onion-Like Brassavola
Flower Size 2" [5 cm]
Found in Bolivia, Paraguay and Brazil in subxerophytic forests on cliffsides at elevations of 1200 to 1800 meters as a with slender, erect or ascending, slightly arcuate and flexuose small sized, cool growing, epiphytic species stems carrying a single, apical, erect, spreading or arcuate, subcylindric, sulcate above, long attenuate apically leaf that blooms in the summer through fall in cultivation and the winter in Brazil on a shorter than the leaf, erect to arcuate, racemose inflorescence having spreading, coriaceous, narrowly triangular floral bracts with 2 to 3 flowers that are fragrant at night and arises from the crease at the base of the terete leaf.
Best grown mounted on wood, with high light and humidity, ample water while in growth and a lessening after the pseudobulbs have matured and flowered.
Synonyms Bletia ceboletta Rchb.f 1862; Brassavola chacoensis Kranzl. 1905; Brassavola reginae Pabst 1978; Brassavola ovaliformis Schweinf. 1949;
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Bonplandia (Hannover) 3: 221 Rchb.f 1855;
Ann. Bot. Syst. 6: 435 Rchb.f 1862 as Bletia ceboletta;
Xenia Orchidaceae vol 2 : 63 Rchb.f 1862 as Bletia ceboletta;
Die Orchideen Schlechter 1915 as B cebolleta;
Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965;
Orchidaceae Brasilense Band 1 Pabst & Dungs 1975 drawing fide;
Die Orchideen 3 Auflage Bd 1 Sonderabdruck aus Schlechter Lieferung 10 576 - 632 Brieger, Maatsch and Senghas 1977 photo #447 fide;
Die Orchideen 3 Auflage Bd 1 Sonderabdruck aus Schlechter Lieferung 10 576 - 632 Brieger, Maatsch and Senghas 1977 Photo #448 not = B perrinii;
Die Orchideen 3 Auflage Bd 1 Sonderabdruck aus Schlechter Lieferung 10 576 - 632 Brieger, Maatsch and Senghas 1977 as B ovaliformis;
Bradea 2: 228 Pabst 1978 as B reginae;
Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 508 Vasquez & Dodson 1982 drawing ok;
The Manual of Cultivated Orchids Bechtel, Cribb, Laurent 1992 drawing ok;
Manual of Cultivated Orchids Bechtel, Cribb & Laurent 1992;
Manual of Orchids Stewart 1995;
The Cattleyas and Their Relatives Vol V Withner 1998 photo fide;
The Cattleyas and Their Relatives Vol V Withner 1998 as B chacoensis; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1C lieferung 42 - 43 pg 2626 - 2762 Brieger 2001 as B reginae;
Orchids of Bolivia Vol 2 Laelinae Vasquez and Ibisch 2004 drawing/photo fide; Orchids of The Brazilian Central Plateua Menezes 2004 photo fide;
Orchid Digest vol 71 #4 Oct, Nov, Dec 2007 drawing/photo fide;
Orchid Digest vol 71 #4 Oct, Nov, Dec 2007 as B ovaliformis drawing/photo fide;
Mille et Une Mini Orchideees Roguenant 2009 photo fide;
Mille et Une Mini Orchideees Roguenant 2009 as B reginae photo fide;
Orchids of Tropical America an introduction and guide Meisel 2014 as B reginae photos fide;
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