Orchidaceae

Brassia

Kingdom: Plantae Rank: Genus Parent: Orchidaceae Status: Valid

Morphological Description

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Vegetative Morphology

Habit: Caespitose or creeping epiphytes, lithophytes, and terrestrials. Pseudobulbs usually compressed, often sharply two-edged, +/- subtended by usually deciduous foliaceous bracts.

Leaves: Leaves one to several, when more than one often separated by a conspicuous internode.

Reproductive Morphology

Inflorescence: Inflorescences axillary long-pedunculate racemes or panicles.

Flowers: Flowers two-ranked, spidery. Sepals and petals subsimilar, subequal, linear-lanceolate, acuminate, brittle. Lip unlobed or obscurely three-lobed, acuminate, with a basal pair of usually pubescent calli. Column short, straight, without wings or foot; pollinia 2, grooved, on a common stipe and viscidium.