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Brasiliorchis kautskyi

Happy New Year! This is the first time blooming of this  Brasiliorchis kautskyi  for me.  Last year, it tried to flower, but it didn't have enough energy after the import from Bela Vista.  But it seems to be happier this year. Brasiliorchis kautskyi  was in genus  Maxillaria , but Singer et al. (2007) proposed good reasons to separate some related species into a separate genus,  Brasiliorchis .  The species is known to occur in EspĂ­rito Santo, Brazil.  The type specimen was collected from the vicinity of Domingos Martins  where minimum/maximum temperature is 19/29C (66/84F) in the summer and 14/25C (57/77F) in the winter. The species epithet is after Roberto Anselmo Kautsky.  He was a botanists from Domingos Martins, Espirito Santo, Brazil, and discovered many species. In 2003, he and his friends founded Instituto Kautsky , whose mission is to promote the preservation and protection of natural resources. He passed...