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Brassavola venosa Lindley 1840 SUBGENUS Brassavola SECTION Cuneilabia

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Common Name The Veined Lip Brassavola

Flower Size 4 3/4" [12 cm]

Found from Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, Honduras, Nicaragua and Costa Rica as a small sized, hot growing, caespitose epiphyte in dry forests at elevations of sealevel to 300 meters as a hot growing orchid that differs from Brassavola nodosa by the presence of raised veins on the lip and a much broader leaf, otherwise they are very similar. This species has linear and non-swollen stems subtended by basal, papery bracts and carrying a single, apical, fleshy, somewhat terete, oblong, acute, longitududinally canaliculate leaf and blooms on an erect to pendulous, few flowered racemose inflorescence arising on a newly maturing pseudobulb occuring from the winter through spring.

Kew considers this species as a synonym of Brassavola nodosa , I have left it separate for now

Synonyms *Bletia venosa (Lindl.) Rchb. f. 1862; Brassavola nodosa var venosa {Lindley] N. G. Jones 1969; Javieria venosa (Lindl.) Archila, Chiron & Szlach. 2013

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Edwards's Bot. Reg. 26: t. 20 Lindley 1840;

Ann. Bot. Syst. 6: 438 Rchb.f 1862 as Bletia venosa

Xenia Orchidaceae vol 2 Rchb.f 1862 as Bletia venosa;

Atlas des Orchidees Cultivees Constantin 1920 drawing fide;

Orchids of Guatemala & Belize Ames & Correll 1985 as synonym of B nodosa;

Las Orquedias De El Salvador Hamer 1974 drawing fide;

Orchids of Panama L O Williams 1980;

Las Orquideas De El Salvador Vol 3 Hamer 1981 drawing ok;

Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 804 Hamer 1982 drawing fide;

Selbyana Vol 10 Orchids of Central America Hamer 1988 drawing fide;

Icones Planetarum Tropicarum plate 1405 Mora & Atwood 1993 drawing fide;