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Orchid Species: Brassia bidens
(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)
Brassia bidens is an orchid species identified by Lindl. in 1844.
ORIGIN: Collected in northern Peru but found north to Venezuela, Guyana as well as Brazil at altitudes of 200 to 1200 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Medium to large sized, hot to cool growing epiphyte or a terrestrial with ellipsoid to oblong, somewhat laterally compressed, light green pseudobulbs that carry, usually 2, apical, oblong to elliptic oblong, subacute, light green leaves. It is a more miniature plant than other Brassia that I am aware and it blooms in the spring in northern cultivation with a short, axillary, erect raceme with several to many flowersfor this genus and arise on a mature pseudobulb.
FLOWER SIZE: 1 1/2 wide inches [3.75 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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