Brassavola acaulis Lindl. 1851-2 SUBGENUS Brassavola SECTION Cuneilabia
Award winning plant and Photo by © Richard Saporita
TYPE Drawing by © Lindley
Drawing by © J D Hooker
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Common Name The Stemless Brassavola
Flower Size 2.8 to 3.2" [7 to 8 cm]
Found in Mexico, Guatemala, Costa Rica and Panama in moist foothills as a medium sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with pendant short stems carrying a single, terete, fleshy, acute, dark green flushed with red leaf with the rhizome producing one stem and leaf and then in the later spring to early summer, an single to 5 flowered inflorescence arising on a mature pseudobulb that carries nocturnally fragrant, waxy flowers.
Synonyms Bletia acaulis (Lindl.) Rchb. f. 1862; Bletia lineata (Hook. f.) Rchb. f. 1862; Brassavola lineata Hook. f. 1853; Brassavola mathieuana Klotzsch 1853; Javieria acaulis (Lindl. & Paxton) Archila, Chiron & Szlach. 2013
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Paxton's Fl. Gard. 2: 152 Lindl & Paxton 1851 drawing fide;
Bot. Mag. 79: t. 4734 Hooker 1853 as B lineata;
Bot. Mag. 79: t. 4734 Hooker 1853 as B lineata drawing fide
Allg. Gartenzeitung 21: 290 Klotzsh 1853 as B mathieuana;
Ann. Bot. Syst. 6: 435 Rchb.f 1862 as Bletia acaulis;
Ann. Bot. Syst. 6: 436 Rchb.f 1862 as Bletia lineata;
Xenia Orchidaceae vol 2: 64 Rchb.f 1862 as Bletia acaulis;
Xenia Orchidaceae vol 2: 64 Rchb.f 1862 as Bletia lineata;
Die Orchideen Schlechter 1915;
Repert. Sp. Nov. Regni. Veg. Beih. 17: 48. Panama Schlechter 1922 as Brassavola lineata;
The Orchids of Panama 386 L.O. Williams & P Allen 1946;
Orchids of Malaya Holtum 1953;
Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965;
Die Orchideen 3 Auflage Bd 1 Sonderabdruck aus Schlechter Lieferung 10 576 - 632 Brieger, Maatsch and Senghas 1977 photo fide;
Orchids of Guatemala and Belize Ames & Correll 1985;
Orchids Travel By Air A Pictoral Safari Mulder, Mulder-Roelfsema and Schuiteman 1990 photo fide;
Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 1404 Mora & Atwood 1992 drawing fide;
Field Guide to the Orchids of Costa Rica and Panama Dressler 1993;
Manual of Orchids Stewart 1995;
The Cattleyas and Their Relatives Vol V Withner 1998 drawing fide;
AOS Bulletin Vol 69 No 5 2000 photo fide;
AOS Bulletin Vol 73 No 7 2004 photo fide;
Vanishing Beauty, Native Costa Rican Orchids Vol 1 Pupulin 2005 photo fide;
Orchid Digest vol 71 #4 Oct, Nov, Dec 2007 drawing/photo fide;
AOS Bulletin Vol 77 #7 2008 photo fide;
AOS Bulletin Vol 78 #4 2009 photo fide;
AOS Bulletin vol 78 No 7 2009 photo fide;
Richardiana 14: 100 Archila, Chiron & Szlach. 2013 as Javieria acaulis;
AOS Bulletin Vol 84 #10 2015 drawing fide;
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 Javieria acaulis
Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol IV: 505 Szlatchetko & Kolanowska 2023 as Javieria acaulis photo fide;
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