Clowesia glaucoglossa (Rchb.f.) Dodson 1975
Plant and Flowers Photo By Ed Merkle and Merkles Orcids Website
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Common Name The Glaucous Tongued Clowesia
Flower Size .8" [2 cm]
Found in Michoacan Mexico on palms in savannahs often in association with ants nests at elevations of 520 to 1200 meters as a giant sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with clustered, 7 to 11 internoded, globose to ovoid pseudobulbs enveloped in youth by leaf bearing sheaths each carrying 7 to 11 distichous, deciduous, plicate, marrow, linear-oblanceolate to elliptic-oblanceolate, acuminate, longly attenuate and canaliculate base leaves that blooms in the late spring and early summer arising on a newly arising pseudobulb, pendulous, 10 to 15.2" [25 to 38 cm] long cm] long, racemose, fairly dense, 9 to 25 flowered inflorescence with amplexicaule, triangular, acuminate, greenish white floral bracts and carrying semi-closed flowers.
Synonyms *Catasetum glaucoglossum Rchb.f. 1885
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora Brasilica Vol XII VI Hoehne 1942 as Catasetum glaucoglossum drawing fide; Orchid Digest Vol 42 No 3 1978 photo fide; Icones Orchidacearum 6-6 Plate 539 Hagsater & Soto 2003 drwaing fide
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