Zygopetalum maxillare Lodd. 1832 Photo by © Eric Hunt and His Orchid Website

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Common Name The Chin-Bone Zygopetalum

Flower Size 2 1/2" [6 cm]

Found in montane rainforests in SE Brazil and Paraguay, this small to medium sized, cool to warm growing epiphyte occurs at elevations of 600 to 1000 meters with ovoid, slightly compressed pseudobulbs carrying 2 to 3, apical, conspicuously veined, narrowly lanceolate, subacuminate leaves that blooms on a lateral, to 15" [37 cm]long, racemose, several [5 to 8] flowered inflorescence with fragrant, waxy, long-lived flowers occuring in the summer in Brazil.

Synonyms Eulophia maxillaris (Lodd.) G.Don 1850; Zygopetalum gautieri Lem. 1867; Zygopetalum hasslerianum Krnzl. 1906; Zygopetalum mandibulare Rchb.f 1877; Zygopetalum sanderae Sander 1927 ; Zygopetalum sanderianum Regel 1888

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

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