Pabstia jugosa [Lindley]Garay 1973
Photo by Patricia Harding.
Photo by Lourens Grobler.
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Common Name The Saddle-Shaped Pabstia
Flower Size 2 to 3" [5 to 7.5 cm]
A medium sized, warm to cool growing, epiphytic or lithophytic species from altitudes of 700 meters and up in the Serra Do Mar from Espirito Santo to Santa Catarina Brazil in shady and humid locations with clustered, narrowly ovoid to ovoid-oblong, compressed, ancipitous, somewhat sulcate pseudobulbs carrying 2 apical, subcoriaceous, elongate-lanceolate, shortly acuminate, basally long-attenuate leaves that blooms in the spring or early summer with one to four, fragrant flowers on a 9" [22.5 cm] long, erect or arching, longer than the leaves inflorescence arising as the new growth appears with oblong-lanceolate, long-acuminate floral bracts.
This species needs shady, well watered conditions until the pseudobulb becomes mature in the late fall, then less water should be given.
Synonyms Colax jugosus Lindley 1843; Colax jugosus var punctatus Rchb.f 1863; Colax jugosus var. rufinus Rchb.f. 1883; Colax viridis var. puydtii Cogn. 1902; Lycaste jugosa Benth 1883; Lycaste jugosa [Lindley]Nichols 1885; *Maxillaria jugosa Lindley 1869; Pabstia jugosa var. rufina (Rchb.f.) Garay 1973; Pabstia jugosa var. viridis (God.-Leb.) Garay 1973; Zygopetalum jugosum [Lindley] Schlechter 1914; Zygopetalum stapelioides Klotsch ex Rchb.f 1854
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Xenia Orchidaceae Rchb.f 1854 as Colax jugosus drawing; Bonplandia Rchb. f 1855 as Colax jugosus; Die Orchideen Schlechter 1915 as Zygopetalum jugosum; Atlas des Orchidees Cultivees Constantin 1920 as Colax jugosus drawing fide; Iconografia de Orchidaceae Do Brasil Hoehne 1949 as Colax jugosa drawing fide; Flora Brasilica Vol XII VII 115-147 Hoehne 1953 as Colax jugosus drawing fide; Flora Brasilica Vol XII VII 115-147 Hoehne 1953 as Colax jugosus var punctatus; Flora Brasilica Vol XII VII 115-147 Hoehne 1953 as Colax jugosus var rufinus; AOS Bulletin Vol 27 No 10 1958 drawing fide; AOS Bulletin VOl 30 No 8 1961 as Colax jugosus photo fide; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965 as Colax jugosus photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 35 #6 1966 as Colax jugosas photo fide; Orchidaceae Brasilensis Pabst & Dungs Band II 1977 drawings fide; Orchid Digest Vol 42 No 4 1978 photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 44 No 4 1980 photo fide; The Manual Of Cultivated Orchid Species Bechtel, Cribb & Launert 1992 photo fide; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1B lieferung 27 1648 - 1712 Brieger 1993 drawing/photo fide; Orchids of the High Mountain Atlantic Rainforest in SE Brazil Warren & Miller 1994; Icones Orchidacearum Brasilenses I Plate 089 Castro & Campacci 2000 drawing fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 80 #11 2011 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 85 #6 2015 photo fide;
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