Pabstia jugosa [Lindley]Garay 1873 Photo courtesy of Patricia Harding.

Flower Closeup Photo by Lourens Grobler.

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Common Name The Saddle-Shaped Pabstia

Flower Size 2 to 3" [5 to 7.5 cm]

A medium sized, cool to hot growing, epiphytic or lithophytic species from altitudes of 700 meters and up in the Serra Do Mar from Espiritu Santo to Santa Catarina Brazilshady and humid locations with clustered, narrowly ovoid od ovoid-oblong, compressed, ancipitous, somewhat sulcate pseudobulbs carrying 2 apical, subcoriaceous, elongate-lanceolate, shortly acuminate, basally long-attenuate leaves that blooms with one to four, fragrant flowers on a 9" [22.5 cm] long, erect or arching spike as the new growth appears with oblong-lanceolate, long-acuminate floral bracts and it is longer than the leaves appearing in the spring or early summer. This species needs shady, well watered conditions until the pseudobulb becomes mature in the late fall, then less water should be given.

Synonyms Colax jugosus Lindley 1843; Colax jugosus var punctatus Rchb.f 1863; Colax jugosus var. rufinus Rchb.f. 1883; Colax viridis var. puydtii Cogn. 1902; Lycaste jugosa Benth 1883; Lycaste jugosa [Lindley]Nichols 1885; *Maxillaria jugosa Lindley 1869; Pabstia jugosa var. rufina (Rchb.f.) Garay 1973; Pabstia jugosa var. viridis (God.-Leb.) Garay 1973; Zygopetalum jugosum [Lindley] Schlechter 1914; Zygopetalum stapelioides Klotsch ex Rchb.f 1854

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora Brasilica Vol XII VII 115-147 Hoehne 1953 as Colax jugosus; Xenia Orchidaceae Rchb.f 1854 as Colax jugosus drawing; Orchidaceae Brasilensis Pabst & Dungs Band II 1977; Orchids of the High Mountain Atlantic Rainforest in SE Brazil Warren & Miller 1994; Icones Orchidacearum Brasilenses I Plate 089 Castro & Campacci 2000;

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