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Copyright: Raimundo Mesquita (mesquens)
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| Genre: Plants |
| Medium: Color |
| Date Taken: 2008-08-05 |
| Categories: Flowers |
| Camera: Panasonic Lumix DMC LZ7 |
| Exposure: f/2.8, 1/60 seconds |
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| Photo Version: Original Version |
| Date Submitted: 2008-08-05 4:00 |
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| [Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note [Portuguese] |
Found in Santa Catarina to Espirito Santo states, Brazil at elevations of 600 to 1200 meters, this medium sized, cool to warm growing terrestrial or epiphyte, has clustered, often buried in leaf litter, ovoid or ovoid-oblong, compressed, lightly sulcate, shiney dark green pseudobulbs carrying 3 to 5 apical, coriaceous, narrowly lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, acute or shortly acuminate, plicate, long-attenuate below leaves that blooms on an erect, to 1 1/2' [45 cm] long, several [3 to 10] flowered, racemose inflorescence with showy, fragrant, waxy, long-lived flowers occuring in the winter through spring.
Synonyms Zygopetalum claesianum Hort. 1894; Zygopetalum crepeauxii Carrière 1887; Zygopetalum intermedium Linden & Rodigas. 1890; Zygopetalum mackaii Hort 1899; Zygopetalum mackaii Hkr. var. convexum Mutel 1842; Zygopetalum mackaii Hkr. var. crinitum Lindley 1833; Zygopetalum microtis Hoffmannsegg 1863; Zygopetalum pubescens Hoffmannsegg 1843; Zygopetalum stenochilum Lodd. 1833
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