View source for Brassia ← Brassia You do not have permission to edit this page, for the following reason: The action you have requested is limited to users in the group: Users. You can view and copy the source of this page. {{Treatment/ID |accepted_name=Brassia |accepted_authority=R. Brown |publications={{Treatment/Publication |title=in W. Aiton and W. T. Aiton, Hortus Kew. |place=5: 215. 1813 |year=1813 }} |common_names=Spider orchid |basionyms= |synonyms= |hierarchy=Orchidaceae;Orchidaceae subfam. Epidendroideae;Orchidaceae tribe Maxillarieae;Orchidaceae (tribe Maxillarieae) subtribe Oncidiinae;Brassia |hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Orchidaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subfamily</small>[[Orchidaceae subfam. Epidendroideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>tribe</small>[[Orchidaceae tribe Maxillarieae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subtribe</small>[[Orchidaceae (tribe Maxillarieae) subtribe Oncidiinae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Brassia]]</div></div> |etymology=for William Brass, an eighteenth-century British botanical illustrator and collector |volume=Volume 26 |mention_page=page 496 |treatment_page=page 645 }}<!-- --><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs,</b> epiphytic, ± cespitose. <b>Stems</b> either reduced and covered with sheathing bracts or elongate with prominent, single-noded pseudobulb. <b>Leaves</b> 1(–2) per sympodium, from apex of pseudobulb, often with 1–3 short foliaceous bracts subtending single-noded pseudobulb; blade conduplicate, oblong-lanceolate, dorsiventrally flattened, margins entire. <b>Inflorescences</b> lateral, racemes; bracts narrowly triangular. <b>Flowers</b>: sepals and petals distinct and free, long, attenuate-caudate; lip unlobed; callus prominent, 2-lamellate; column without appendages, footless; stigmatic cavity ± round; rostellum not prominent. <b>Fruits</b> capsules.</span><!-- -->{{Treatment/Body |distribution=Subtropics and tropics;Western Hemisphere. |discussion=<p>Species 35 (1 in the flora).</p> |tables= |references={{Treatment/Reference |id=kooser1979a |text=Kooser, R. G. and G. C. Kennedy. 1979. The genus Brassia R. Brown section Eubrassia Lindley. Orchid Digest 43: 164–172. }}{{Treatment/Reference |id=williams1972a |text=Williams, N. H. 1972. A reconsideration of Ada and the glumaceous brassias. Brittonia 24: 93–110. }} }}<!-- --><!-- -->{{#Taxon: name=Brassia |author=Mark W. Chase |authority=R. Brown |rank=genus |parent rank=subtribe |synonyms= |basionyms= |family=Orchidaceae |distribution=Subtropics and tropics;Western Hemisphere. |reference=kooser1979a;williams1972a |publication title=in W. Aiton and W. T. Aiton, Hortus Kew. |publication year=1813 |special status= |source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/8f726806613d60c220dc4493de13607dd3150896/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V26/V26_1327.xml |subfamily=Orchidaceae subfam. Epidendroideae |tribe=Orchidaceae tribe Maxillarieae |subtribe=Orchidaceae (tribe Maxillarieae) subtribe Oncidiinae |genus=Brassia }}<!-- -->[[Category:Treatment]][[Category:Orchidaceae (tribe Maxillarieae) subtribe Oncidiinae]] Templates used on this page: Template:Orchidaceae (view source) Template:Treatment/AuthorLink (view source) Template:Treatment/Body (view source) Template:Treatment/Body/Maps (view source) Template:Treatment/ID (view source) Template:Treatment/Publication (view source) Template:Treatment/Reference (view source) Return to Brassia.