Pabstia viridis (Lindl.) Garay 1973 Photo courtesy of Eric Hunt, plant grown by Dan Newman of Hanging Gardens.

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Common Name The Becoming-Green Pabstia

Flower Size 2" [5 cm]

Found in the coastal mountains of SE Brazil at elevations of 200 to 1500 meters in montane rainforests and cloud forests near the sea as a small sized, cool to warm growing epiphyte, lithophyte or occaisional terrestrial with clustered, 4-angled, compressed pseudobulbs carrying 2 apical, plicate, oblong-lanceolate, acuminate leaves that blooms on a short to 2" [5 cm], single flowered inflorescence arising from the base of the newly emerging psedobulb and carries a single, fleshy, showy flower occuring in the late spring and summer in Brazil.

Synonyms Colax puydtii Cogn. 1902; Colax tripterus Rolfe 1906 ; Colax viridis (Lindl.) Lindl. 1843; Colax viridis var. parviflorus Hoehne 1951; Lycaste viridis [Lindl.] Benth. 1883; *Maxillaria viridis Lindl. 1832; Maxillaria viridis var uniflora platysepala Regel 1856; Maxillaria viridis var pluriflora Regel 1856; Pabstia triptera (Rolfe) Garay 1973; Pabstia viridis var. parviflora (Hoehne) Garay 1973 ; Zygopetalum viride [Lindl] Schlechter 1914

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