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(Last Modified On 2/4/2013)
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(Last Modified On 2/4/2013)
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Species
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BRASSIA CHLOROPS Endres & Rchb. f.
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PlaceOfPublication
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Gard. Chron. 542. 1873.
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Synonym
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Brassia parviflora A. & S. in Sched. Orch. 8:74. 1925.
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Description
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Erect, caespitose, epiphytic herbs usually with slender, complanate-elliptic, rudimentary, monophyllous pseudobulbs often completely enveloped by the conduplicate leaf bases. Leaves lanceolate, shortly acuminate, subcoriaceous, 8-30 cm. long and 1.4-3.0 cm. wide, the conduplicate bases distichously imbricating, often forming a short, narrow, complanate petiole, the leaves toward the base be- coming progressively shorter, the lowest reduced to non-foliaceous bracts. Inflorescences erect, 3- to 7-flowered racemes 15-25 cm. long, produced from the axils of the upper leaves. Flowers very small for the genus. Sepals rather fleshy, free, subequal, spreading, linear-lanceolate, acuminate, 1.4-2 cm. long and 0.2-0.3 cm. wide. Petals subequal to the dorsal sepal, obliquely lanceolate, acuminate, 1.1-1.5 cm. long and 0.15-0.25 cm. wide. Lip entire, rather fleshy, elliptic-lanceolate to linear-lanceolate, acute, 1-1.1 cm. long and about 0.45 cm. wide, the apex usually dorsally carinate and recurved, the base adnate to the base of the column, the disk with 2 fleshy parallel pubescent keels, about I/2 the total length of the lip, the apices terminating in 2 more or less prominent teeth. Column short, stout, about 5 mm. long, the base without a foot.
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Distribution
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Costa Rica and Panama.
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Specimen
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CHIRIQUI: vicinity Casita Alta, Finca Lerida, eastern slopes of Chiriqui Volcano, 1500-2000 m., Woodson, Allen & Seibert 874.
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Note
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An aberrant highland species, having the aspect of a small-flowered Odonto- glosstm. It differs from most species of Brassia in the short sepals which are of about equal length, green with darker spots or brown with yellow markings. Our single specimen differs in color, and somewhat in structural detail from the type, but seems more readily referable to this species than to any other.
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