Dichaea glauca (Sw.) Lindl. 1833 SECTION Dichaeopsis Photos by © Eric Hunt and His Orchid Website

White form and Plant Photo courtesy of Patricia Harding

Another Color Form Photo courtesy of Dale and Deni Borders

Plant and Flowers Photo courtesy of Danny Lentz, plant grown by Atlanta Botanical Garden

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Common Name The Shiney Blue-Green Dichaea

Flower Size to 3/4" [1.5 cm]

A robust, small to large sized, erect or arching, hot to cool growing epiphyte and occasional terrestrial or lithophyte found below the trees that occurs in the West Indies as well as Mexico south to Costa Rica in wet humid forests and coffee plantations at elevations of 500 to 2400 meters, with erect stems enveloped by leaf-sheaths carrying distichous, glaucous, deciduous, oblong-elliptic, acute, shortly mucronate leaves that blooms in the spring on an axillary, 1" [2.5 cm] long, solitary flowered inflorescence with broadly ovate bracts and strongly fragrant flowers that are held close to the leaves and stem and is a cool to hot growing orchid that needs ample year-round water and fertilizer.

Synonyms Cymbidium glaucum Sw. 1799; Dichaea oerstedii Rchb.f. 1855; Dichaea willdenowiana Krzl. 1923; Dichaeopsis glauca (Sw.) Schltr. 1918; Dichaeopsis oerstedii (Rchb.f.) Schltr. 1918 *Epidendrum glaucum Sw. 1788; Epithecia glauca Schlechter 1838; Epithecia oerstedii (Rchb.f.) Schltr. 1914; Prosthechea glauca (Sw.) Knowles & Westc. 1838

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Lankester's Epidendra Website CR ; Prodr.: 124. 1788 as Epidendrum glaucim; Nova Acta Regiae Soc. Sci. Upsal. 6: 71. 1799 as Cymbidium glaucum; *Gen. Sp. Orchid. Pl.: 209. 1833; Bonplandia 3: 219. 1855 as Dichaea oerstedii; Symbolae Antillanae Vol VI Orchidaceae Urban 1909; Flora of Jamaica Fawcett & Rendle 1910 drawing ok; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; Las Orquedias De El Salvador Vol 1 Hamer 1974 drawing hmm; AOS Bulletin Vol 48 No 5 1979; Las Orquedias de El Salvador Vol 3 Hamer 1981 drawing fide; The Orchids of Cuba Llamacho & Larramendi 2005; Orchidaceae Antillanae Nir 2000; Icones Orchidacearum I plate 12 Salazar 1990 drawing fide; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum plate 652 Dodson 1982 drawing fide

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