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Orchid Species: Brassavola mathieuana

Kew currently accepted name is Brassavola acaulis

Brassavola mathieuana is an orchid species identified by Klotzsch in 1853. Culture information and photos for this orchid are commonly detailed under the currently accepted name of Brassavola acaulis.
Genus
Brassavola (B.)
Grex
mathieuana
Parents
Species
Author
Klotzsch
Year
1853
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ORIGIN: Found in Mexico, Guatemala, Costa Rica and Panama in moist foothills.

DESCRIPTION: Medium sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with pendant short stems carrying a single, terete, fleshy, acute, dark green flushed with red leaf with the rhizome producing one stem and leaf and then the next an inflorescence arising on a mature pseudobulb that carries a single to 5, nocturnally fragrant, waxy flowered inflorescence occurring in the later spring to early summer.

FLOWER SIZE: 2 3/4 to 3 1/4 inches [7 to 8 cm] -- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
Other Names
Genus Name Genus Grex Name Year Author
Add+ Brassavola B acaulis 1851 Lindl. & Paxton
Add+ Brassavola B lineata 1853 Hook.
Add+ Bletia Bletia acaulis 1862 Rchb.f. in W.G.Walpers
Add+ Bletia Bletia lineata 1862 (Hook.) Rchb.f. in W.G.Walpers
Most awarded/recent cultivars: B. acaulis 'Deanna's Prodigal Quiver' (2 awards in 2017) B. acaulis 'Crownfox' (2 awards in 2006) B. acaulis 'Virginia Ceciliano Chacon' (2011) B. acaulis 'G.I.N. Jr.' (2009) B. acaulis 'Alpine Wonder' (2003) B. acaulis 'Gundlach' (1984)
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