Brassavola chacoensis Kranzl. 1905 SUBGENUS Brassavola SECTION Cuneilabia

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Common Name The Chaco Brassavola [A desert within southern Bolivia and northern Paraguay]

Flower Size 3" [7.5 cm]

Found in Peru, Bolivia, Paraguay and Brazil at elevations around 1000 meters as a medium sized, cool growing epiphyte with slightly nodulous bases on secondary stems carrying a single, apical, erect, very slender, terete, curved leaf that blooms in the fall and winter on a terminal, short, 1 to 4 flowered inflorescence carrying night scented flowers

CAUTION Many references now put this species as a synonym of B tuberculata ,

Synonyms Brassavola ovaliformis C.Schweinf. 1949;

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

*Beibl. Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 80: 7 Kraenzl. 1905

Die Orchideen 3 Auflage Bd 1 Sonderabdruck aus Schlechter Lieferung 10 576 - 632 Brieger, Maatsch and Senghas 1977 photo not = B flagellaris;

The Cattleyas and Their Relatives Vol 5 Withner 1998 drawing/photo fide;

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

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