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Orchid Species: Brassia cochleata
(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)
Brassia cochleata is an orchid species identified by Knowles & Westc. in 1838.
ORIGIN: Found in French Guiana, Surinam, Guyana, Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Brazil in wet montane forests at elevations of 265 to 1200 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Medium to large sized, hot to cool growing epiphyte with oblong, tapered, compressed, sulcate with age pseudobulbs subtended by 6 to 8 distichous, imbricating, sheaths concealing the basal half, the upper sheaths foliaceous and there are 2 apical, narrowly oblanceolate leaves with a conduplicate base that blooms in nature in the fall and the spring in cultivation on a arching, axillary, racemose, several [11 to 13] flowered inflorescence arising on a mature pseudobulb and having minute floral bracts.
FLOWER SIZE: 1 1/2 inches [4 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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