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Orchid Species: Bletia gloriosa

Kew currently accepted name is Laelia gloriosa

Bletia gloriosa is an orchid species identified by (Rchb.f.) Rchb.f. in W.G.Walpers in 1862. Culture information and photos for this orchid are commonly detailed under the currently accepted name of Laelia gloriosa.
Genus
Bletia (Bletia.)
Grex
gloriosa
Parents
Species
Author
(Rchb.f.) Rchb.f. in W.G.Walpers
Year
1862
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ORIGIN: Found in Venezuela, Guyana, Surinam, Colombia and Ecuador as a large sized, hot growing epiphyte with 2 leaves that is at elevations of 200 to 900 meters.

DESCRIPTION: A large sized, hot growing epiphyte with 2 leaves that is at elevations of 200 to 900 meters with clavate, terete below, lightly compressed, grooved above, 4 to 6 noded pseudobulbs carrying 2 or 3, apical, narrowly oblong, obtuse, coriaceous, acinate leaves that blooms in the fall and early winter on a terminal, to more than 4' [120 cm] long, apical, racemose, many [8 to 15] flowered, clustered at the apex of the inflorescence with prominent, deflexed, linear-lanceolate, acuminate floral bracts and has large, showy, waxy, short-lived flowers arising on a mature psiuedobulb and is related to Schomburgkia crispa Lindley.

FLOWER SIZE: 2 to 2 1/2 inches [5 to 6.25 cm] -- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
Other Names
Genus Name Genus Grex Name Year Author
Add+ Laelia L gloriosa 1941 (Rchb.f.) L.O.Williams
Add+ Schomburgkia Schom fimbriata 1942 Hoehne
Add+ Schomburgkia Schom gloriosa 1860 Rchb.f.
Add+ Bletia Bletia wallisii 1877 Rchb.f.
Most awarded/recent cultivars: L. gloriosa 'Casey Greene' (2 awards in 2008) L. gloriosa 'Aura Josefina' (2016) L. gloriosa h.f. alba 'Bela Vista' (2006) Schom. gloriosa 'Caracas' (1980)
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