Cyrtopodium hatschbachii Pabst 1978 Photo by © Dalton Holland Baptista

Another Flower Photo by Patricia Harding

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Common Name Hatschbach's Cyrtopodium [Brazilian Orchid Collector early 1900's]

Flower Size 1 3/8" [3.5 cm]

Found in Goias state of Brazil as well as northern Argentina in swampy areas at elevations around 400 meters as a large sized, cool growing terrestrial with elongate, slightly ovoid to almost fusiform pseudobulbs carrying plicate leaves that blooms in the late winter and early spring on a basal, racemose, 8 to 15 successively flowered inflorescence

Synonyms Cyrtopodium bradei Schltr. ex Hoehne 1942

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora Brasilica Vol XII VI Hoehne 1942 as Cyrtopodium bradei drawing fide; Orchidaceae Brasilenses Band 1 Pabst & Dungs 1975 as C bradei drawing fide; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1B lieferung 25 1520 - 1584 Brieger 1991 as C bradei; AOS Bulletin Vol 65 #1 1996 photo fide; Orchids of The Brazilian Central Plateau Menezes 2004 photo fide; 100 Orquideas Argentinas Freuler 2005 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 65 No 1 1996 photo; AOS Bulletin Vol 75 No 11 2006 photo fide; Genera Orchidacearum Vol 5 Epidendroideae Part 2 Pridgeon, Cribb, Chase and Rasmusen 2009 photo fide; 100 orquideas Argentinas Freuler 2009 photo fide;

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