Brassavola angustata Lindl. 1838

SUBGENUS Sessililabia SECTION Prionoglossa

Photo by © Gary Yong Gee and his Orchid Photo Website

Common Name The Narrow Brassavola [refers to the lip]

Flower Size

Found in Trinidad & Tobago, Surinam, Guyana, Venezuela and northern Brazil as a small to medium sized, hot growing epiphyte with a terete stem carrying a asingle, terete, fleshy, subuliform, mucronate, sulcate dorsally leaf that blooms in the summer on an erect, much shorter than the leaf, nutant, 3 to 5 flowered inflorescence carrying flowers that have a nocturnal scent of clove.

Differs from B cucullata in the lip not being cucullate basally and the leaves are very long and slender.

This species has often been cited as a synonym of B martiana but that species has a uniform fimbriate lip, this one is less so, but they both have a lip that has the same general shape.

CAUTION I have no way of verifying this determination so please use with caution!

Synonyms Bletia angustata (Lindl.) Rchb.f. 1862; Bletia attenuata Rchb.f. 1863; Brassavola surinamensis Focke 1851

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Edwards's Bot. Reg. 24: t. 41 Lindley 1838

Tijdschr. Natuurk. Wetensch. Kunsten 4: 17 Focke 1851 as Brassavola surinamensis;

Ann. Bot. Syst. 6: 434 Rchb.f 1862 as Bletia angustata;

Xenia Orchid. 2: 64 Rchb.f 1863 as Bletia attenuata;

Orchidaceae Brasilensees Band 2 Pabst & Dungs 1977 Drawing good;

Die Orchideen 3 Auflage Bd 1 Sonderabdruck aus Schlechter Lieferung 10 576 - 632 Brieger, Maatsch and Senghas 1977 photo fide;

Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1C lieferung 33 - 36 2057 - 2308 Brieger 1997 drawing good;

Orchid Digest vol 71 #4 Oct, Nov, Dec 2007 drawing/photo fide;

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