!Brassia maculata R. Brown 1813

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Common Name The Spotted Brassia

Flower Size 5 to 8" [12.5 cm to 20 cm]

Found in Mexico, Belize, Honduras, Guatemala, Cuba and Jamaica commonly found growing in deitrus over rocks at altitudes below 750 meters as a large sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte and occasional lithophyte with ovoid to oblong-elliptic, compressed pseudobulbs subtended by old, grey, basal, leaf bearing sheaths and carrying 2 apical, oblong-ligulate, coriaceous, acute or obtuse, conduplicate below into the petiolate base leaves that blooms in the spring on a to 36" [90 cm] long, loosely few to many flowered inflorescence arising on a mature pseudobulb with remote, tubular sheaths and carrying large, waxy, long-lived fragrant flowers.

This orchid does well in baskets or pots with a open mix that provides good drainage.

Synonyms Brassia guttata Lindley 1842; Brassia maculata var. guttata (Lindl.) Lindl. 1854; Brassia wraye Skinner 1843; Oncidium brassia Rchb.f 1863

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Symbolae Antillanae Vol VI Orchidaceae Urban 1909; Flora of Jamaica Fawcett & Rendle 1910 drawing fide; Die Orchideen Schlechter 1915; Flora of Malaya vol 1 Holtum 1953; AOS Bulletin Vol 26 No 10 1957; AOS Bulletin Vol 30 No 7 1961 photo fide; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; AOS Bulletin Vol 39 No 1 1970 photo; Orquedias de El Salvador Hamer 1974 drawing/photo fide; Las Orquideas De El Salvador Vol 3 Hamer 1981 drawing ok; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 624 Hamer 1982 drawing fide; Orchids of Guatemala & Belize Ames & Correwll 1985; AOS Bulletin Vol 55 #11 1986 photo fide; Selbyana Vol 10 Orchids of Central America Hamer 1988 drawing fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 61 No 10 1992 photo fide; The Manual of Cultivated Orchids Bechtel, Cribb, Laurent 1992 drawing fide; Manual of Orchids Stewart 1995; Orchids of Jamaica Glioudin & Tobisch 1995; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1C lieferung 33 - 36 2057 - 2308 Brieger 1997 drawing fide; Guatemala Y Sus Orquideas Behar & Tinschert 1998 photo fide; Orchidaceae Antillanae Nir 2000; Harvard Pap. Bot. 5 #2: Carnevali etal 2001; AOS Bulletin Vol 72 No 3 2003 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 74 No 7 2005 drawing fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 74 No 8 2005 photo fide; Flora's Orchids Nash & La Croix 2005; Orchid Species Culture: Oncidium, Bakers 2006; AOS Bulletin Vol 75 No 6 2006 photo fide; Guia de Orquideas de Chiapas Carlos Rommel Beutelspacher Baigts 2013 photo fide; Orchids, A Colombian Treasure Vol 1 Ortiz & Uribe 2014 drawing fide Orchid Flora of the Greater Antilles Ackerman 2014 drawing fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 86 #3 2016 drawing fide; Orchid Genera and Species in Guatemala Archila, Szlachchetko, Chiron, Lipinska, Mystkowska and Bertolini 2018; Orchid Digest Vol 83 #3 2019 photo fide;

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