Brassia
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Authority
Mori, S. A., et al. 1997. Guide to the vascular plants of central French Guiana: Part 1. Pteridophytes, gymnosperms, and monocotyledons. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 76: 1-422.
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Family
Orchidaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
Genus Description - Erect epiphytes with usually compressed oblong-ovoid pseudobulbs subtended by foliaceous bracts, more or less aggregate on stout rhizome. Leaves 1-3 per pseudobulb, conduplicate, elliptic-oblong to oblong-oblanceolate, subcoriaceous. Inflorescences few- to many-flowered racemes from axils of upper foliaceous bracts, erect to arching. Flowers showy, fragrant, subtended by inconspicuous bracts; sepals subsimilar, free, spreading, acuminate to long-caudate; petals subequal to dorsal sepal or noticeably shorter; lip entire to obscurely 3-lobed, sessile, broader than other segments, adnate to base of column, with basal pair of calli; column short, erect, footless, wingless; pollinia 2, waxy.