Cyrtopodium hatschbachii Pabst 1978 Photo by © Dalton Holland Baptista

Another Flower Photo courtesy of 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, Brazil as well as northen Argentina in swampy areas at elevations around 400 meters as a large sized, cool to warm 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

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora Brasilica Vol XII VI Hoehne 1942 as Cyrtopodium bradei drawing 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

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