Despite Kew site cites it as a syn. of B tuberculata, we believe B, ceboletta is a good species. It probably is the small one you have there. It has been also called as B. bahiensis and B. reginae sometimes. This species comes mostly from Bahia, Northeast of Brazil. Pseudobulbs are abt 15-20 cm, erect. Usually up to two flowers per inflorescence.
This info agrees with what Cogniaux says in Martius' Flora Brasiliensis. The one who made them synonimes probably didn't pay attention to Reichenbach's description where he informs us about the size of the flowers, circa 2 cm of diameter. That cannot be a syn. of B. tuberculata.
We do have another tiny one that is B. revoluta, it is close to B. ceboletta, but their habitats are separated by 1300 miles. The sepals and petals of this one are much narrower, the sepals are curved back and it blooms in solitary inflorescences, form Santa Catarina, South of Brazil.
Both are blooming here now and photos of them can be seen in our website at
http://www.orchidstudium.com/Estrangeiras/fotos.html
Cheers,
Dalton
At 14:30 12/10/2006, you wrote:
I'm doing the registrations for our show, & there is always trouble. Somebody is entering a mini Brassavola that goes by the name B. bahiensis hort. It is not an accepted name & I can't find out what it is supposed to be, except one catalogue lists it under B. cebolleta. Anybody know anything about it?
Iris
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