Cattleya glauca
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Cattleya glauca
Found in Veracruz, Oaxaca and Chiapas states of Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras in open mountainous forests at elevations of 700 to 1600 meters as a medium sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with short, oblong-fusiform, slightly compressed pseudobulbs carrying a single, apical, erect, oblong-elliptic, coriaceous, glaucous, obtuse apically leaf that blooms in the spring on an erect, arising on a newly forming pseudobulb, 4″ [10 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence with a fragrant, rose, Lily of the Valley and cyclamen scented, long lasting flower subtended by a large tubular sheath.
“This attractive species is easily distinguished from Rhyncholaelia digbyana by its smaller flowers and entire, not long fimbriate lip. The genus Rhyncholaelia is closely related to Guarianthe and perhaps it should be combined with it. The flowers of R. glauca are variable, especially from a horticultural point of view. The size of the flowers shows great variation, as does the amount of tannish suffusion on the sepals. The most sought-after flowers are star-shaped, with spreading segments forming a flat flower, although those with arcuate, floppy petals are more common, and even all the tepals may be reflexed. Rhyncholaelia glauca has been used to produce some popular, small-flowered hybrids in the Cattleya alliance.” Hagsater 2008