Gomesa glaziovii Cogn. 1904
Lip and Column detail Photos by © Luiz Filipe Varela and his Flicker website
Another Flower Photo courtesy of Bill Bergstrom and Bergstrom Orchids Homepage
Plant in situ in Salesopolis at elevation of 300 meters Photo courtesy of Jay Pfahl
Common Name Glaziou's Gomesa [French born - Botanical Director For Royal Botanical Garden Rio 1800's]
Flower Size .6 [1.6 cm] wide
Found in southeastern Brazil in the coastal mountains of Espirito Santo, Rio De Janiero, Sao Paulo, Parana, and Santa Catarina states on mountain ridges at elevations of 1000 to 1500 meters as an ascending, clumping, small to medium sized, cool to warm growing epiphyte with a stout, branching rhizome giving rise to well-spaced, transluscent green, oval, strongly laterally compressed, ancipitous pseudobulbs partially enveloped basally by 2 to 3 pale green conduplicate, leafless sheaths and carrying a single, apical, smooth, pale green, lanceolate, acute, shortly conduplicate below into the base that blooms in the summer on a basal, erect then to pendulous apically, 9 to 15 flowered, inflorescence carrying faintly citrus scented flowers
Synonyms Gomesa duseniana Kraenzl. 1921; Gomesa scandens Rolfe 1904; Gomesa scandens Rolfe 1906
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Iconografia de Orchidaceae Do Brasil Hoehne 1949 drawing fide; Orchidaceae Brasilense Band II Pabst & Dungs 1977 as G duseniana drawing fide; Orchidaceae Brasilense Band II Pabst & Dungs 1977 drawing fide; Orchids of the High Mountain Atlantic Rainforest in SE Brazil Warren & Miller 1994; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1C lieferung 33 - 36 2057 - 2308 Brieger 1997; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1C lieferung 33 - 36 2057 - 2308 Brieger 1997 as G duseniana; Orchid Species Culture: Oncidium, Bakers 2006 as G duseniana; Orchid Species Culture: Oncidium, Bakers 2006; Orchids of Brazil Vol 1 Oncidinae Baptista, Harding & Neto 2011 photo fide
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