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Bletia venosa is an orchid species identified by Rchb.f. in W.G.Walpers in 1862. Culture information and photos for this orchid are commonly detailed under the currently accepted name of Brassavola venosa.
ORIGIN: Found from Honduras, Nicaragua and Costa Rica as a small sized, hot growing, caespitose epiphyte in dry forests at elevations of sea-level to 300 meters as a hot growing orchid.
DESCRIPTION: Found from Honduras, Nicaragua and Costa Rica as a small sized, hot growing, caespitose epiphyte in dry forests at elevations of sea-level to 300 meters as a hot growing orchid that differs from Brassavola nodosa by the presence of raised veins on the lip and a much broader leaf, otherwise they are very similar. This species has linear and non-swollen stems subtended by basal, papery bracts and carrying a single, apical, fleshy, somewhat terete, oblong, acute, longitududinally canaliculate leaf and blooms on an erect to pendulous, few flowered racemose inflorescence arising on a newly maturing pseudobulb occurring from the winter through spring.
FLOWER SIZE: 4 3/4 inches [12 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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