Cattleya brevipedunculata

Cattleya brevipedunculata (Cogn.) Van den Berg, Neodiversity 3(1): 5 (2008).

Cattleya brevipedunculata (Cogn.) Van den Berg, Photo by Silvio Ricardo Magalhães

its native range is Brazil (Minas Gerais, Espírito Santo).

Latin Name: 

Cattleya brevipedunculata (Cogn.) Van den Berg

Family: 

Orchidaceae Juss.

Synonym:

Hadrolaelia brevipedunculata (Cogn.) Chiron & V.P.Castro

Sophronitis brevipedunculata (Cogn.) Fowlie

Sophronitis wittigiana var. brevipedunculata Cogn.

English Name:

The Short-Stalked Sophronitis.

Description: 

With sulcate, globose to cylindrical pseudobulbs that are arranged in two ranks along the rhizome and carry a single, apical, erect, stiff, leathery, leaf that blooms in the late winter and spring in Brazil on a terminal, short to 1 cm long, solitary to 3 flowered inflorescence..

Distribution:

Brazil Southeast.

Ecological:

An epiphytic, or lithophytic, cool growing, miniature orchid from Minas Gerais State and is found on vellozia trees or in humus pockets on the rocks below them in drier cool winter mountain habitats in scrub and cacti at elevations of 1220 to 2000 m where their water comes mainly from the cloud cap on the high mountains at night and condensation.

Flowering times:

Blooms in the late winter and spring in Brazil.

Flower size:

7.5 cm.

Cultivation:

Growing Temperature: Warm to Cool.

Light Level: Medium-High

Typus:

Reference: 

- theplantlist.org

- https://www.ipni.org/n/60448075-2

- http://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:60448075-2

-  http://www.orchidspecies.com/robwasselii.htm.- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robiquetia_wassellii

- https://www.orchidweb.com/orchids/cattleya-alliance/species/sophronitis-brevipedunculata

- http://cattleyaorchidsource.blogspot.com/2009/12/sophronitis-brevipedunculata.html

- https://orchids.fandom.com