Cyrtopodium × intermedium Brade 1939 Photo courtesy of © Dalton Holland Baptista © and Maria Rita Cabral Orchidstudium

TO LATE TO EARLY

Common Name The Intermediate Cyrtopodium

Flower Size 1.6" [4 cm]

Found in Minas Gerais state of Brazil as a natural hybrid between C. gigas × C. glutiniferum as a giant sized, warm to cool growing terrestrial with numerous, clustered, elongate, fusiform pseudobulbs enveloped in youth by leafless and leafbearing sheaths and carrying 8 to 10, lanceolate, acute, plicate, 3 nerved leaves that blooms in the late winter and early spring on an erect, paniculate, to 48" [to 120 cm] long , many flowered inflorescence

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora Brasilica Vol XII VI Hoehne 1942 drawing ok; Orchidaceae Brasilenses Band 1 1Pabst & Dungs 1975 drawing good;

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