!Clowesia rosea Lindley 1843 Photo by © Lourens Grobler.

Plant and Flowers Photo courtesy of Weyman Bussey

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Common Name The Rose-colored Clowesia

Flower Size 1" [2.5 cm]

Found in Michoacan and Oaxaca states of Mexico on the Pacific slope in oak forests or tropical deciduous forests at elevations around 500 to 1300 meters as a small to medium sized, deciduous leafed epiphyte with pseudobulbs enveloped basally by gray overlapping sheaths and carrying 4 to 5, apical, elliptic-lanceolate, acuminate, flexible, long-attenuate to the articulate base leaves that blooms in the early winter on a short to 4 3/4" [to 12 cm], racemose inflorescence that has several, campanulate, fragrant flowers and arises from the base of mature leafless or leafed psuedobulbs. This species starts to lose its mature leaves in the fall so as this occurs water and fertilize much less, until the new growths appear and are 1" or longer when you can resume a well watered and heavily fed regimen, for the new psudobulb and leaves to mature.

Synonyms Catasetum roseum (Lindl.) Rchb. f. 1872

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Lankester's Epidendra Website CR ; *Edwards's Bot. Reg. 29: pl. 39. 1843; Flora Brasilica Vol XII VI Hoehne 1942 as Catasetum roseum drawing fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 26 No 10 1957 photo as Catasetum roseum; AOS Bulletin Vol 28 No 8 1959 photo; AOS Bulletin Vol 33 No 5 1964; Orchid Digest Vol 42 No 23 1978 photo; AOS Bulletin Vol 52 No 6 1983 photo; Flora Novo-Galaciana Vol 16 McVaugh 1985; Orchid Digest Vol 42 No 3 1978 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 69 No 4 2000 photo; Icones Orchidacearum 5 & 6 Orchids Of Mexico Parts 2 & 3 Plate 540 Hagsater, Soto 2002 drawing fide; Orchid Digest Vol 77 No 1 2008 photo

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