Hagsatera rosilloi R.González 1974
Photo by © Eric Hunt
TYPE Drawing by © R Gonzales
MOST OFTEN
Common Name Rosill's Hagsatera
Flower Size .08" [2 cm]
Found in Jalisco state of Mexico and Guatemala? in pine and oak canyons and in tropical semi-deciduous forests , or at the edge of montane evergreen tropical forests, as an epiphyte, but mainly lithophytic as a small size, warm to cool growing lithophyte and occasional epiphyte with a short rhizome giving rise to a purple, ovoid to fusiform , flattened, close set pseudobulbs carrying a single, apical, ligulate-lanceolate, coriaceous, obtuse rounded and minutely apiculate apically leaf that blooms in the winter on a termial, erect, few flowered inflorescense and carrying fragrant, fleshy flowers
Differs from H brachycolumna by the dark purple covered base of the labellum which obscures the lip veins and verrucosities and differences in the lip and petal shapes.
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Orquidea (Mexico City), n.s., 3: 345 R Gonzales 1974;
Die Orchideen 3 Auflage Bd 1 Sonderabdruck aus Schlechter Lieferung 9 513 - 576 Brieger, Maatsch and Senghas 1977;
The Cattleyas and Their Relatives Vol V Withner 1998 photo fide;
Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Lieferung 42/3 2001 as H brachycolumna drawing fide;
*The Cattleya and Their Relatives Vol 7 The Debateable Epidendrum Withner & Harding 2004
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