While current authorities list this brassavola as the species tuberculata, it has in fairly recent times been known as Brassavola perrinii, with cultivar “Emily” earning CCM/AOS

Collected in Brazil, this large epiphyte or lithophyte was first brought into flower near Liverpool, England, in 1828. The spidery, airy, nocturnally fragrant flowers are palest yellow to lime and they appear in great numbers on an established plant, which is often seen on a slab of cork or other type mount. The elliptically shaped lip is white and may be flushed green in the throat. The flowers themselves never open fully and the sepals in some plants have blood-red spotting.

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