Brassavola flagellaris

"Brassavola flagellaris is a species of epiphytic orchid of the Cattleya alliance. It grows wild in eastern Brazil (from Minas Gerais to Paraná),[1] where it fills the evening air with the citrus-like fragrance of its blossoms"

Brassavola flagellaris Barb.Rodr., Gen. Sp. Orchid. ii. 161.

Brassavola flagellaris Barb.Rodr., Photo by Jeremy Oversier 

its native range is Brazil.

Latinh Name: 

Brassavola flagellaris Barb.Rodr 

Family: 

Orchidaceae Juss.

Synonym:

No synonyms are recorded for this name.

English Name:

Whip-leafed Brassavola or in Brazil Munida de chicote = lash or whip.

Description: 

With elongate, robust, cylindric, 4 to 5 noded, erect or ascending stems enveloped in youth by sheaths and carrying a single, apical, reflexed above, rigid, slender, terete, deeply sulcate above, longly subulate, acute apically leaf that blooms in the spring and early summer in northern cultivation on a lax, short, 4 to 5 cm long, bracteate, 2 to 15 flowered inflorescence subtended by an elongate spathe, and concave, triangular floral bracts with long-lasting, nocturnally fragrant hot chocolate scented flowers that arise from the crease at the base of the leaf.

Distribution:

Brazil North, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast.

Ecological:

As a large sized, hot to warm growing, creeping, epiphytic or lithophytic orchid.

Flowering times:

Blooms in the spring and early summer.

Flower size:

7.5 cm.

Cultivation:

LIGHT/LOCATION: semi-shady

TEMPERATURE: moderate - warm (18 - 22 °C)

WATERING: spray regularly

FERTILIZATION: none

Typus:

Reference: 

- theplantlist.org

- orchidspecies.com/lepdiabolica.htm. 

- ipni.org/n/618033-1

- powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:305886-2

- orchideen-wichmann.de/en/brassavola-flagellaris.html

- ecuagenera.com/Masdevallia-persicina/en

- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brassavola_flagellaris

- orchids.fandom.com