Brassavola retusa Lindley 1847

Photo by © Jay Pfahl

Common Name The Retuse Brassavola

Found in Zulia state of Venezuela and Peru as a medium sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with a slender, gradually enlarging upward stem enveloped by imbricating, papery sheaths and carrying a single, apical, linear-terete, slightly bowed, obtuse leaf that blooms in the fall on a terminal, arising on a mature pseudobulb1 to 2 flowered inflorescence .

Synonyms Bletia retusa [Lindley] Rchb.f 1861;

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Edwards's Bot. Reg. 33: t. 20 Lindley 1847

Ann. Bot. Syst. 6: 435 Echb.f 1862 as Bletia retusa

Xenia Orchidaceae vol 2: 62 Rchb.f 1862 as Bletia retusa;

Flora de Venezuela Foldats Volumen XV Part 3 1970;

Fieldiana Biology, Vol 33, 1st Supple. to the Orchids of Peru Schweinfurth 1970;

Orchidaceae Brasilense Pabst & Dungs 1975;

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

The Cattleyas and Their Relatives Vol V Withner 1998;

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

Orchid Species of Peru Zelenko Bermudez 2009 photo fide

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