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|accepted_name=Brassia
|accepted_authority=R. Brown
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=in W. Aiton and W. T. Aiton, Hortus Kew.
|place=5: 215. 1813
|year=1813
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|common_names=Spider orchid
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Orchidaceae;Orchidaceae subfam. Epidendroideae;Orchidaceae tribe Maxillarieae;Orchidaceae (tribe Maxillarieae) subtribe Oncidiinae;Brassia
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Orchidaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subfamily</small>[[Orchidaceae subfam. Epidendroideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>tribe</small>[[Orchidaceae tribe Maxillarieae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subtribe</small>[[Orchidaceae (tribe Maxillarieae) subtribe Oncidiinae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Brassia]]</div></div>
|etymology=for William Brass, an eighteenth-century British botanical illustrator and collector
|volume=Volume 26
|mention_page=page 496
|treatment_page=page 645
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--><span class="statement" id="st-d0_s0" data-properties="whole_organism habitat;whole_organism growth form;whole_organism growth form"><b>Herbs,</b> epiphytic, ± cespitose.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s1" data-properties="stem size;stem shape;bract architecture or shape;pseudobulb prominence;pseudobulb architecture"><b>Stems </b>either reduced and covered with sheathing bracts or elongate with prominent, single-noded pseudobulb.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s2" data-properties="leaf atypical quantity;leaf quantity;bract quantity;bract height or length or size;bract architecture;subtending pseudobulb architecture"><b>Leaves </b>1 (–2) per sympodium, from apex of pseudobulb, often with 1–3 short foliaceous bracts subtending single-noded pseudobulb;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s3" data-properties="blade arrangement or vernation;blade shape;blade shape;margin architecture or shape">blade conduplicate, oblong-lanceolate, dorsiventrally flattened, margins entire.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s4" data-properties="inflorescence position"><b>Inflorescences </b>lateral, racemes;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s5" data-properties="bract shape">bracts narrowly triangular.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s6" data-properties="sepal fusion;sepal fusion;sepal length or size;sepal shape;petal fusion;petal fusion;petal length or size;petal shape"><b>Flowers:</b> sepals and petals distinct and free, long, attenuate-caudate;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s7" data-properties="lip shape">lip unlobed;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s8" data-properties="callus prominence;callus shape">callus prominent, 2-lamellate;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s9" data-properties="column architecture">column without appendages, footless;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s10" data-properties="stigmatic cavity shape">stigmatic cavity ± round;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s11" data-properties="rostellum prominence">rostellum not prominent.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s12" data-properties=""><b>Fruits </b>capsules.</span><!--

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|distribution=Subtropics and tropics;Western Hemisphere
|discussion=<p>Species 35 (1 in the flora).</p>
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name=Brassia
|author=Mark W. Chase
|authority=R. Brown
|rank=genus
|parent rank=subtribe
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Orchidaceae
|distribution=Subtropics and tropics;Western Hemisphere
|reference=None
|publication title=in W. Aiton and W. T. Aiton, Hortus Kew.
|publication year=1813
|special status=
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|subfamily=Orchidaceae subfam. Epidendroideae
|tribe=Orchidaceae tribe Maxillarieae
|subtribe=Orchidaceae (tribe Maxillarieae) subtribe Oncidiinae
|genus=Brassia
|blade arrangement or vernation=conduplicate
|blade shape=flattened;oblong-lanceolate
|bract architecture=foliaceous
|bract architecture or shape=sheathing
|bract height or length or size=short
|bract quantity=1;3
|bract shape=triangular
|callus prominence=prominent
|callus shape=2-lamellate
|column architecture=footless
|inflorescence position=lateral
|leaf atypical quantity=1;2
|leaf quantity=1
|lip shape=unlobed
|margin architecture or shape=entire
|petal fusion=free;distinct
|petal length or size=long
|petal shape=attenuate-caudate
|pseudobulb architecture=single-noded
|pseudobulb prominence=prominent
|rostellum prominence=not prominent
|sepal fusion=free;distinct
|sepal length or size=long
|sepal shape=attenuate-caudate
|stem shape=elongate
|stem size=reduced
|stigmatic cavity shape=round
|subtending pseudobulb architecture=single-noded
|whole_organism growth form=herb;cespitose
|whole_organism habitat=epiphytic
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