Aspasia (plant)
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Aspasia, abbreviated as Asp. in the horticultural trade, is a genus of 7 species of orchids occurring from southern Mexico to southern Brazil. The genus is closely related to Miltonia and Brassia. Asp
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Aspasia silvana was described in 1989, after being confounded with an intergeneric natural hybrid.
Aspasia lunata: this star shaped species is the most common in the Southeast of Brazil. It resembles A. silvana but is much smaller.
Aspasia psittacina is the only species that exists in Ecuador. Although it is the largest Aspasia plant, its flowers are not larger than most.
Odontoglossum
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Odontoglossum, first named in 1816 by Karl Sigismund Kunth, is a formerly accepted genus of orchids that is now regarded as a synonym of Oncidium. Several hundred species have previously been placed i
Aspasia (plant)
…the genus Miltonia as M. odorata. Although having initially accepted the genus, Reichenbach decided all Aspasia would be better placed under the genus Odontoglossum and, in 1864, he proposed this transfer. The idea apparently was not welcome and in 1878 Reichenbach was again accepting Aspasia as a good genus because…
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