Brassavola grandiflora Lindley 1839
Photo by Claude Hamilton © and Hamlyn Orchids In Jamaica
Drawing by © Fritz Hamer
Common Name The Large Flowered Brassavola
Flower Size 4" [10 cm]
Found in Belize, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Colombia and Ecuador? as a small sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte and sometimes lithophyte with a short rhizome giving rise to an erect, short, terete pseudobulb carrying a single, apical, erect, linear-oblong, very thick, fleshy, flattened, sulcate down the mid-line leaf that blooms in the summer on a lateral, to 2.4" [6 cm] long, 2 to 3 flowered inflorescence with simultaneously opening flowers that have a very strong, nice nocturnal scent
Often cited as a synonym of B nodosa but differs in the wider, flatter, less terete leaf and much bigger flowers.
Synonyms Brassavola nodosa var. grandiflora (Lindl.) H.G.Jones 1972; Javieria grandiflora (Lindl.) Archila, Chiron & Szlach. 2013
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Edwards's Bot. Reg. 25: t. 16 Lindley 1839
Bonplandia 2: 21 Rchb.f 1854 as B grandiflora;
Amer. Orchid Soc. Bull. 41: 495 H G Jones 1972 as Brassavola nodosa var. grandiflora
Las Orquedias De El Salvador Hamer 1974 drawing/photo fide;
Las Orquideas De El Salvador Vol 3 Hamer 1981 drawing fide;
Icones Planetarum Tropicarum plate 621 Hamer 1982 drawing fide;
Selbyana Vol 10 Orchids of Central America Hamer 1988 drawing fide;
Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 1 Doson 1993 photo fide;
The Cattleyas and Their Relatives Volume 5 Withner 1998 drawing/photo fide;
Flora Of Ecuador # 76 225[2] Dodson & Luer 2005 drawing fide;
Orquidias del Serrania del Baudo Misas Urrettia 2006 drawing/photo fide;
Orchid Digest vol 71 #4 Oct, Nov, Dec 2007 drawing/photo fide;
Richardiana 14: 100 Archila, Chiron & Szlach. 2013 as Javieria grandiflora;
Orchids, A Colombian Treasure Vol 1 Ortiz & Uribe 2014 photo fide;
Orchid Genera and Species in Guatemala Archila, Szlachchetko, Chiron, Lipinska, Mystkowska and Bertolini 2018 as Javieri graniflora;
Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol IV: 505 Szlatchetko & Kolanowska 2023 as Javieria grandiflora drawing/photo fide;
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