Rossioglossum grande
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Read about Rossioglossum grande in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture
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Odontoglossum grande, Lindl. Baby Orchid. Fig. 2561 (redrawn from "The Garden"). Pseudobulbs 2-lvd.: Lvs. broadly lanceolate: scape few-fld., twice as long as the Lvs.; sepals lanceolate, the lateral ones keeled, yellow, banded with rich reddish brown spots; petals oblong, broader, obtuse, subundulate, apex yellow; labellum almost rotund, apex slightly emarginate, yellow, banded and spotted with rusty blotches, and with a large-lobed tubercle on the claw. Autumn. Guatemala. B.M.3955. F.S. 1:24, 25. P.M.8:49. Gn. 48, p. 219; 51: 118. G.C. III. 17:41 (abnormal fls.); 42:387.—A magnificent species with half-drooping racemes a foot long, bearing few large, brilliantly colored fls. 5-6 in. diam.
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