Prosthechea glauca Knowles & Westc. 1838
Photo By © Patricia Harding
Photo By © Ron Parsons
Drawing By © Fritz Hamer
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Common Name The Waxy Prosthechea [refers to the plants surface]
Flower Size 1" [2.5 cm]
Found in Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador in moderately wet oak forests at elevations of 900 to 2100 meters as a small sized, warm to cold growing epiphyte with rounded, oval, compressed pseudobulbs carrying a single leaf and blooms in the spring and summer on a peduculate, 8" to 14" [20 to 35 cm] long, racemose inflorescence carrying fragrant flowers.
Synonyms Amblostom tridactylum var mexicanum Kranzl. 1920; Encyclia glauca ( Knowles & Westc. ) Dressler & G.E.Pollard 1971; Encyclia limbata [Lindl] Dressler 1961; Epidendrum glaucum (Knowles & Westc.) Lindl. 1840; Epidendrum glaucovirens ames, Hubbard & Schwein. 1936; Epidendrum limbatum Lindl. 1843; Epithecia glauca (Knowles & Westc.) Knowles & Westc. 1838;
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Vidensk. Meddel. Naturhist. Foren. Kjøbenhavn 71: 177 Kraenzl. 1920 as Amblostoma tridactylum var mexicanum;
* Fl. Cab. 2: 111 Knowles & Westc. 1838
Fl. Cab. 2: 167 Knowles & Westc. 1838 as Epithecia glauca;
Edwards's Bot. Reg. 26(Misc.): 29 Lindley 1840 as Epidendrum glaucum nom. illeg.
Edwards's Bot. Reg. 29(Misc.): 69 Lindley 1843 as Epidendrum limbatum;
Bot. Mus. Leafl. 3: 70 Ames, F.T.Hubb. & C.Schweinf. 1935 as Epidendrum glaucovirens;
The Genus Epidendrum Ames 1936 as Epidendrum limbatum;
Ceiba Vol 5 No 1 L O Williams 1956 as Epidendrum limbatum;
Brittonia 13: 265 Dressler 1961 as Encyclia limbata;
Phytologia 21: 437 Dressler & G.E.Pollard 1971 as Encyclia glauca;
Las Orquedias De El Salvador Vol 1 Hamer 1974 as Epidendrum limbatum drawing/photo fide;
Die Orchideen 3 Auflage Bd 1 Sonderabdruck aus Schlechter Lieferung 9 513 - 576 Brieger, Maatsch and Senghas 1977 as Encyclia limbatum;
Las Orquedias de El Salvador Vol 3 Hamer 1981 as Epidendrum limbatum drawing fide;
An Introdution to the Orchids of Mexico Wiard 1987 as Encyclia glauca photo fide;
Selbyana Vol 10 Orchids of Central America Hamer 1988 as Encyclia glauca drawing fide;
Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1C lieferung 42 - 43 pg 2626 - 2762 Brieger 2001;
Orchid Digest Vol 65 #2 2001;
The Cattleya and Their Relatives Vol 7 The Debateable Epidendrum Withner & Harding 2004 drawing/photo fide;
Guia de Orquideas de Chiapas Carlos Rommel Beutelspacher Baigts 2013 photo fide;
Orchid Genera and Species in Guatemala Archila, Szlachchetko, Chiron, Lipinska, Mystkowska and Bertolini 2018;
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