Pabstia modestior ( Rchb.f. ) Garay 1973

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Common Name The Modest Pabstia

Flower Size 1 1/4" [3 cm]

A medium sized, cool to hot growing, coastal Brazilian, epiphytic or lithophytic species from altitudes of 200 to 1500 meters in rainforest or cloud forests in shady and humid locations with clustered, narrowly ovoid to ovoid-oblong, compressed, ancipitous, somewhat sulcate pseudobulbs carrying 2 apical, subcoriaceous, oblong-lanceolate, shortly acuminate, basally long-attenuate leaves that blooms with one to four, fragrant flowers on a basal, 9" [22.5 cm] long, erect or arching spike as the new growth appears with oblong-lanceolate, long-acuminate floral bracts appearing in the spring or early summer in Brazil. This species needs shady, well watered conditions until the pseudobulb becomes mature in the late fall, then less water should be given.

Synonyms *Colax modestior Rchb.f 1860; Colax viridis var trimaculatus Porsch 1906;

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Orchidacearum Brasilenses I Plate 090 Castro & Campacci 2000;

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