Paul, It was described by Pupulin & Bogarin in Orchids 73 (3): 206. The article has good color pictures and some additional information.
icones ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2008 10:20 AM Subject: [OGD] Brassia suavissima . . . > Gentle OGDers, > > I am in Costa Rica for a few months and recently joined the Asociación > Costarricence de Orquídologia when attending their annual Exposición > Nacional de Orquídias the past March. > > Last evening attended an ACO meeting for the first time in several years. > Part of the evenings program includes an evaluation and recognigiton by > the ACO Judges of the orchids the members have brought in. > > Amongst the interesting things on the table were a very fine specimen of > Cattleya maxima with well-held, very flat (for a maxima) and dark colored > flowers. It was accorded best foreign species. There was a Thunia > marshalliana with a head of four nice flowers and a beautifully flowered > specimen of a Prosthechea that looked a lot like P. fragrans, but was not. > It was also accorded recognition for being so well fowered. > > But the 'prize' that was most commented on was a well grown and flowered > plant of Brassia suavissima. It had 15 or twenty pseudobulbs and six > sipkes of flowers, at least 2/3 of which were open. Flowers were a pale, > very slightly greenish-yellow and for a brassia were very short segmented. > The arrangement of the floweres was two ranked (as one would expect for a > brassia) and the flowers were very closely spaced, which was not at all > unattractive. Individual flowers appeared to be only 2 1/2" long and about > 1 1/2" wide. The spikes were about 8 to 10 inches long with 15 or more per > spike. > > I asked the owner about this species and was told that it came from the > south part of the country in the area of San Isidro del General. The Judge > doing the commentary on the plant also mentioned that there are only three > known specimens of the this species known. The one she was describing, one > owned by Lankester Gardens and another by another private collector. > > Anyone here have any further information on this very scarce species of > Brassia from Costa Rica? > > Regards, > > Paul Mitchell > Tampa, FL / Alajuela, CR > == > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > the OrchidGuide Digest (OGD) > [email protected] > http://orchidguide.com/mailman/listinfo/orchids_orchidguide.com > _______________________________________________ the OrchidGuide Digest (OGD) [email protected] http://orchidguide.com/mailman/listinfo/orchids_orchidguide.com
