Zygopetalum intermedium Lodd. ex Lindl. 1844 Photo courtesy of Jay Pfahl

Another Clone Photo courtesy of Mauro Peixoto Copyrighted and his Brazilian Plants Website

Flowers in situ Salesopolis Brazil - 200 meters

Same Plant and Flowers

Photos courtesy of Jay Pfahl

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Common Name The Inbetween Zygopetalum

Flower Size to 3" [7 cm]

Found in Peru, Bolivia and Brazil at elevations of 2100 meters as a medium sized, cool to warm growing terrestrial with clustered, ovoid-conical pseudobulbs carrying 3 to 5 apical, oblong or elliptic-lanceolate, acute or acuminate, plicate leaves that blooms an a lateral, racemose, 2' [60 cm] long, longer than the leaves, few [4 to 5] flowered inflorescence with fragrant, waxy, long-lived flowers and prominent bracts equaling the length of the ovaries and occuring in the fall and winter in Brazil.

Synonyms Eulophia mackaiana Lindl. 1831; Zygopetalon mackaii Paxton 1836; Zygopetalum bolivianum Schltr. 1922; Zygopetalum intermedium var. peruvianum Rolfe 1893; Zygopetalum mackaii var. intermedium Mutel 1842; Zygopetalum mackaii Paxt not Hkr.; Zygopetalum roezlii Rchb.f 1877; Zygopetalum velutinum Hoffmsgg. ?

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