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Brassia warscewiczii is an orchid species name for which no taxonomic record was found. Culture information and photos for this orchid are commonly detailed under the currently accepted name of Brassia warszewiczii.
ORIGIN: Found as a medium to large sized, hot growing epiphyte only in Ecuador below 250 meters in elevation in wet montane forests on large trees.
DESCRIPTION: Found as a medium to large sized, hot growing epiphyte only in Ecuador below 250 meters in elevation in wet montane forests on large trees with a woody rhizome carrying cylindrical, lightly compressed pseudobulbs subtended by several pairs of scarious bracts and carrying 2 apical, narrowly oblong-lanceolate, acute, the mid-vein carinate, attenuate to the shortly petiolate conduplicate base leaves that blooms in the fall and early winter in the northern hemisphere on a basal, 13 [32.5 cm] long, several to many [15 to 40] flowered inflorescence arising on a mature pseudobulb, with 5 to 6 distant bracts, decreasing in size from the basal sheath carrying fragrant flowers reminiscent of pepper with vanilla.
FLOWER SIZE: 3/4 inch [1.8 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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