Cattleya caulescens

Cattleya caulescens (Lindl.) Van den Berg, Neodiversity 3(1): 5 (2008).

Cattleya caulescens (Lindl.) Van den Berg, Photo by Brett Moloney

its native range is Brazil (Minas Gerais).

Latin Name: 

Cattleya caulescens (Lindl.) Van den Berg

Family: 

Orchidaceae Juss.

Synonym:

Bletia caulescens (Lindl.) Rchb.f.

Bletia crispilabia (A.Rich. ex R.Warner) Rchb.f.

Cattleya caulescens f. fantinellii (Rosim & Locatelli) Van den Berg

Hoffmannseggella caulescens (Lindl.) H.G.Jones

Hoffmannseggella caulescens f. fantinellii Rosim & Locatelli

Hoffmannseggella crispilabia (A.Rich. ex R.Warner) H.G.Jones

Laelia caulescens Lindl.

Laelia cinnabarina var. crispilabia (A.Rich. ex R.Warner) A.H.Kent

Laelia crispilabia A.Rich. ex R.Warner

Laelia mantiqueirae Pabst ex Zappi

Sophronitis caulescens (Lindl.) Van den Berg & M.W.Chase

English Name:

The Caulescent Laelia.

Description: 

With short pseudobulbs carrying a single, apical, leathery, concave leaf and blooms on a 6 to 14" long, 2 to 5 flowered inflorescence with the well spaced flowers held towards the apex and arise from May through September in the southern hemisphere.

Distribution:

Brazil Southeast.

Ecological:

At elevations of 600 to 1200 m as a miniature to small sized, warm to cool growing rupicolous lithophyte found on exposed rocks and sand among dwarf vellozia bushes on open hillsides .

Flowering times:

Blooms in the summer.

Flower size:

3.7 cm.

Cultivation:

Plants should be grown in medium fir bark with partial to full sun. It is a cool to warm growing orchid species. Water approximately once a week.

Type Information:

Jan 1, 1993 Martius [s.n.], Brazil Laelia caulescens K000718403 isotype

Reference: 

theplantlist.org

https://www.ipni.org/n/60448077-2

http://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:280484-2

http://www.orchidspecies.com/laelcaulescens.htm. 

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