!Zygopetalum mackaii Hooker 1827
Plant in situ La Caraça - Minas Gerais Elevation 1100 meters
Photo courtesy of Jay Pfahl
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Common Name Mackay's Zygopetalum [English Orchid Collector 1800's]
Flower Size 3 1/4" [8 cm]
A medium to large sized, cool to warm growing, Brazilian, terrestrial species with globose to conical pseudobulbs carrying 2 to 3 apical, plicate, elliptic-lanceolate, leaves that blooms on a lateral, racemose, 3' [90 cm] long, several [5 to 10] flowered inflorescence with fragrant, waxy, long-lived flowers occuring in the fall and winter.
Synonyms Eulophia mackayana Lindl. 1841; Zygopetalum intermedium Hort. 1855; Zygopetalum mackaii var cochleatum Mutel 1842; Zygopetalum mackaii var parviflorum Regel 1855; Zygopetalum mackaii var pictum Regel 1855
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora Brasilica Vol XII VII 115-147 Hoehne 1953; AOS Bulletin Vol 27 No 4 1958 drawing; AOS Bulletin Vol 27 No 10 1959 drawing; AOS Bulletin Vol 39 No 9 1970 drawing; AOS Bulletin Vol 57 No 2 1988 photo; AOS Bulletin Vol 63 No 5 1994 photo; Orchids of the High Mountain Atlantic Rainforest in SE Brazil Warren & Miller 1994; AOS Bulletin Vol 65 No 7 1996 photo; AOS Bulletin Vol 72 No 7 2003 photo; AOS Bulletin Vol 74 No 12 2005 photo; Orquideas Da Chapada Diamantina Brito & Cribb 2005; AOS Bulletin Vol 75 No 1 2006;
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