Cattleya lundii (Rchb.f. & Warm.) Van den Berg

Cattleya lundii (Rchb.f. & Warm.) Van den Berg, Neodiversity 3(1): 9 (2008).

Cattleya lundii (Rchb.f. & Warm.) Van den Berg, Photo by Michael Hartmann Larsen 

its native range is Bolivia to Argentina (Misiones, Salta).

Latinh Name: 

Cattleya lundii (Rchb.f. & Warm.) Van den Berg

Family: 

Orchidaceae Juss.

Synonym:

Bletia lundii Rchb.f. & Warm.

Cattleya lundii f. alba (L.C.Menezes) Van den Berg

Laelia lundii (Rchb.f. & Warm.) Rchb.f. & Warm.

Laelia lundii f. alba (L.C.Menezes) M.Wolff & O.Gruss

Laelia lundii var. alba L.C.Menezes

Laelia regnellii Barb.Rodr.

Laelia reichenbachiana H.Wendl. & Kraenzl.

Microlaelia lundii (Rchb.f. & Warm.) Chiron & V.P.Castro

Microlaelia lundii f. alba (L.C.Menezes) F.Barros & J.A.N.Bat.

Sophronitis lundii (Rchb.f. & Warm.) Van den Berg & M.W.Chase

Sophronitis lundii f. alba (L.C.Menezes) Van den Berg & M.W.Chase

English Name:

Lund's Laelia (Danish Plant Collector in Brazil 1800's).

Description: 

With 2 leaves with short, robust, oblong-fusiform, slightly compressed pseudobulbs carrying 2, apical, small, erect to spreading, fleshy, semi-cylindrical, linear, very acute, slightly arcuate, deeply channeled above leaves that flowers in the mid-winter and spring on a short, ascending raceme arising from a new growth with minute bracts and carrying 2 floral scented flowers held among the leaves.

Distribution:

Argentina Northeast, Argentina Northwest, Bolivia, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Paraguay.

Ecological:

Aelevations of 740 to 1000 m in thickets among the coastal mountains or tucumano-boliviano forests as a miniature sized, warm growing epiphytic or lithophytic species

Flowering times:

Blooms in the mid-winter and spring.

Flower size:

4.0 cm.

Cultivation:

Light:

Shade to Bright; 1500-2500 Footcandles (indirect light,pronounced shadowing)

Temperature:

Warm,Intermediate to Cool;45°F min. to 98°F max.(tolerant of extremes,favoring warm).

Watering:

Moist; 3-5 waterings per week (let dry lightly between waterings).

Typus:

Reference: 

- theplantlist.org

- ipni.org/n/60448106-2

- powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:628797-1

- andysorchids.com/pictureframe.asp?pic=images/Species/2111med.jpg&PicId=2111&PicNam=Laelia%20lundii