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Orchid Species: Zygopetalum pubescens

Kew currently accepted name is Zygopetalum crinitum

Zygopetalum pubescens is an orchid species identified by Hoffmanns. in 1843. Culture information and photos for this orchid are commonly detailed under the currently accepted name of Zygopetalum crinitum.
Genus
Zygopetalum (Z.)
Grex
pubescens
Parents
Species
Author
Hoffmanns.
Year
1843
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ORIGIN: Found in Santa Catarina to Espirito Santo states, Brazil at elevations of 600 to 1200 meters.

DESCRIPTION: Medium sized, cool to warm growing terrestrial or epiphyte, has clustered, often buried in leaf litter, ovoid or ovoid-oblong, compressed, lightly sulcate, shiny 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 occurring in the winter through spring.

FLOWER SIZE: To 3 1/2 inches [9 cm] -- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
Other Names
Genus Name Genus Grex Name Year Author
Add+ Zygopetalum Z crinitum 1831 G.Lodd.
Add+ Zygopetalum Z crepeauxii 1887 Carrière
Add+ Zygopetalum Z microtus 1863 Hoffmanns. ex Rchb.f. in W.G.Walpers
Add+ Zygopetalum Z stenochilum 1834 G.Lodd. ex Drapiez
Add+ Eulophia Euph stenochila 1840 (G.Lodd. ex Drapiez) Steud.
Most awarded/recent cultivars: Z. crinitum 'Miyu' (2016) Z. crinitum 'Camille Grace Svoboda' (2011) Z. crinitum 'Coppermill Gem' (1978) Z. crinitum h.f. coerulescens 'Gleneyrie' (1973)
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