Clowesia russelliana [Hooker] Dodson 1975 Photo courtesy of Jay Pfahl
Flower closeup Photo courtesy of Patricia Harding
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Common Name Russell's Clowesia [English Duke of Bedford and Orchid Grower 1800's]
Flower Size 2 1/2" [6.25 cm]
A large sized, warm to hot growing, epiphytic species from Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama and Venezuela found in fairly dry, open forests at elevations of 600 to 1000 meters with ovoid, several noded, grooved with age pseudobulbs mostly enveloped by the sheaths of 6 to 8 plicate, suberect, oblanceolate to oblong-oblanceolate, acute leaves which are deciduous and blooms in the summer through fall on a 15" [37.5 cm] long, basal, pendulous, many [15 to 20] flowered inflorescence arising on a mature leafed or leafless pseudobulbs carrying ovate bracts and carries many sweetly fragrant, fleshy flowers.
Synonyms Catasetum calceolatum Lemaire 1851; *Catasetum russelianum Hooker 1840; Cycnoches viride C. Koch 1857
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora Brasilica Vol XII VI Hoehne 1942 as Catasetum russelianum drawing fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 30 No 9 1961 as Catasetum russelianum; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965 as Catsetum russelianum; Venezuelan Orchids Vol 4 Dunsterville & Garay 1966; Flora de Venezuela Foldats Volumen XV Part 4 1970; Las Orquedias De El Salvador Hamer 1974 as Catasetum russelianum drawing/photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 42 No 3 1978 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 48 No 7 1979 drawing as Catsetum russelianum; Orchids of Venezuela ; An Illustrated Field Guide Vol 1 Dunsterville & Garay 1979 drawing fide; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 636 Dodson 1982 drawing fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 52 No 6 1983 photo; Flora Novo-Galaciana Vol 16 McVaugh 1985; AOS Bulletin Vol 75 No 6 2006 photo; Icones Orchidacearum fascile 10 plate 1013 Hagsater & Soto 2008 Drawing fide
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