!Rhyncholaelia glauca [Lindley]Schlechter 1918 Photo By © Jay Pfahl
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Common Name Glaucous Beaked Laelia
Flower Size to 5" [12 cm]
A medium sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte that is from Veracruz, Oaxaca and Chiapas states of Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras in open mountainous forests at elevations of 700 to 1600 meters with short, oblong-fusiform, slightly compressed pseudobulbs carrying a single, apical, erect, oblong-elliptic, coriaceous, glaucous, obtuse apically leaf that blooms on an erect, 4" [10 cm]long, single flowered inflorescence arising on a newly forming pseudobulb with a fragrant long lasting flower subtended by a large tubular sheath, occuring in the spring. Mount this species on tree fern with plenty of bright light, warm to hot temperatures and plenty of water, althougha drying out is necessary between waterings
Synonyms Bletia glauca [Lindley]Rchb.f 1862; *Brassavola glauca Lindley 1839; Laelia glauca [Lindl.] Bth. 1880
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list ; IPNI ; Lankester's Epidendra Website CR ; Edwards' Bot. Reg. 25: Misc. 47. 1839 as Brassavola glauca; The Orchids of Mexico and Guatemala Bateman 1843 as Brassavola glauca drawing fide; Xenia Orchidaceae vol 2 Rchb.f 1862 as Bletia glauca; AOS Bulletin Vol 29 No 6 1960 photo; AOS Bulletin Vol 29 No 10 1960 photo as Laelia glauca; AOS Bulletin Vol 30 No 9 1961 as Laelia glauca; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965 photo fide; Die Orchideen #10 37-40a tafel 10 Rudolph Schlechter 1971 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 48 No 5 1979; AOS Bulletin Vol 48 No 7 1979 photo; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 1147 Dodson 1984 drawing fide; Cattleyas and Their Relatives Vol 5 Withner 1998 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 68 No 5 1999 photo; Australian Orchid Review Vol 68 No 1 2003 photo; AOS Bulletin Vol 76 No 5 2007 photo; Icones Orchidacearum fascile 10 plate 1075 Hagsater & Soto 2008 drawing fide; AOS Bulletin vol 78 No 5 2009 photo
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