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Brassavola tuberculata Hooker 1829 SUBGENUS Sessililabia SECTION Conchoglossa

Photo by © Jay Pfahl

TYPE Drawing by © J D Hooker

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Common Name Rough or Tuberculated Brassavola

Flower Size 2 1/2 to 3" [6.25 to 7.5 cm]

Found in Brazil, Paraguay and Bolivia from the cool mountains to the hot, lower savannahs, it certainly prefers a hot to warm environment with bright light and high humidity. The mostly pendant growing plant has very slender, stem-like, strongly sulcate pseudobulbs carrying a single, terete, acute, sulcate, pendulous, whiplike leaf and blooms in the late spring and early summer on a short racemose inflorescence that is shorter than the leaves with up to 6 flowers that are highly fragrant of Gardenia at night.

Kew considers Brassavola chacoensis, Brassavola perrinii and Brassavola revoluta as Synonyms of B tuberculata, I have left them separate for now.

Water regularly while in growth and give a slightly drier winter. They do well mounted on tree fern or cork and in nature are found as an epiphyte or lithophyte in varied habitats.

Synonyms Bletia tuberculata [Hkr.]Rchbf 1861; Brassavola fragrans Lemaire 1853; Brassavola gibbsiana Wms. 1877; Brassavola trinervis Lindley 1831; Brassavola tuberculata Barb. Rodr. 1882; Brassavola tuberculata f. trilabellata A.S.Medeiros & Xim.Bols. 2013; Tulexis bicolor Raf. 1836

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Bot. Mag. 56: t. 2878 Hooker 1829

Bot. Mag. 56: t. 2878 Hooker 1829 drawing fide

Fl. Tellur. 4: 43 Raf 1838 as Tulexis bicolor

Jard. Fleur. 3(Misc.): 78 Lem 1853 as B fragrans

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

Xenia Orchidaceae vol 2 Rchb.f 1862 as Bletia tuberculata; Ill. Dict. Gard. 1: 209 G Nicholson 1884 as B gibbsiana

Die Orchideen Schlechter 1915;

Atlas des Orchidees Cultivees Constantin 1920 drawing ok

Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965;

AOS Bulletin Vol 37 # 6 1968 as B perrinii;

AOS Bulletin Vol 44 #8 1975 photo fide;