Botanical name: Brassia arachnoidea    Family: Orchidaceae (Orchid family)

Spider Brassia is a medium sized, tree-dwelling orchid with oblong, laterally compressed, ancipitous, pseudobulbs partially enveloped by distichous, overlapping leafless sheaths and carrying two, leathery, oblong to strap-shaped, erect to spreading, pointed leaves which are conduplicate below into the leaf-stalk-like base. The plant blooms in the fall in the southern hemisphere on a arching to flexuous, up to 40 cm long, up to 10 flowered, raceme-like inflorescence arising on a newly matured pseudobulb and has a few, widely spaced, close, whitish, membraneous sheaths. The flowers are 10-12.5 cm in diameter, yellow with narrow sepals and petals spotted dark brown and a large, pointed, prominent, reflexed lip. Spider Brassia is native to Brazil, cultivated elsewhere.

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