Brassavola revoluta Barb. Rodr. 1882 SECTION Conchoglossum
Photos by © Luiz Felipe Varela and his Flickr Orchid Photo Webpage
LATE
EARLY
Common Name The Revolute Epidendrum [refers to the lip]
Flower Size 2.4" [6 cm]
Found in Minas Gerais and Santa Catarina states of Brazil as a small sized epiphyte with membraneous-fleshy, lanceolate, acute, long mucronate apically leaves that blooms in the late winter and early spring on a terminal, erect, short, singler flowered inflorescence.
Cited as a synonym of Brassavola tuberculata , I have left them separate for now
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Gen. Spec. Orchid. 2: 161 Barb Rodr 1882
Orchidaceae Brasilenses Band I Pabst & Dungs 1975 drawing fide;
Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Lieferung 42/3 2001;
Orchid Digest vol 71 #4 Oct, Nov, Dec 2007 drawing fide;
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