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|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
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--><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><!--

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|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.
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|id=williams1972a
|text=Williams, N. H. 1972. A reconsideration of Ada and the glumaceous brassias. Brittonia 24: 93–110.
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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://bibilujan@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/bb6b7e3a7de7d3b7888a1ad48c7fd8f5c722d8d6/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V26/V26_1327.xml
|subfamily=Orchidaceae subfam. Epidendroideae
|tribe=Orchidaceae tribe Maxillarieae
|subtribe=Orchidaceae (tribe Maxillarieae) subtribe Oncidiinae
|genus=Brassia
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