Cattleya mendelii O Brien 1883 SUBGENUS Cattleya SECTION Cattleya Lindley Photo courtesy of Jay Pfahl
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Common Name Mendel's Cattleya [English Orchid Enthusiast 1800's]
Flower Size 7" to 8" [17.5 to 20 cm]
A medium sized, cool to warm growing epiphytic and lithophytic species from the eastern Cordillera of the Colombian Andes on exposed rock outcroppings and cliffs with cylindrical, grooved, shiney pseudobulbs that carrys a single, apical, oblong, very leathery leaf that is round apically that blooms in the late spring on a terminal, short, few [2 to 5] flowered, long lived inflorescence with fragrant, long-lived flowers that open well.
Synonyms Cattleya bluntii H.Low 1876; Cattleya cupidon hort. 1894; Cattleya labiata var. bella Rchb.f 1882;Cattleya labiata var. mendelii Sanders 1886; Cattleya mendelii var. morganae (R.Warner & L.O.Williams) Braem 1986
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; AOS Bulletin Vol 39 No 5 1970; Orchid Digest Vol 47 No 5 1983 photo; AOS Bulletin Vol 53 No 12 1984 photo; The Catttleya and their Relatives Withner Vol 1 1988; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1987 as C labiata var mendelii; Manual of Orchids Stewart 1995; Manual of Cultivated Orchids Bechtel; Cribb & Laurent 1982; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 1 COS 1990; Orchids of Malaya Holttum 1957; Growing Orchids Vol 2 Rentoul 1982; An Illustrated Encyclopedia of Orchids Pridgeon 1982; AOS Bulletin Vol 70 No 3 2001 photo; AOS Bulletin Vol 72 No 1 2003 photo; AOS Bulletin Vol 72 No 3 2003 photo; Orquideologia Vol. 23 No 1 2004 photo; Flora's Orchids Nash & La Croix 2005; Colombian Cattleyas and their Color Variations Toulemonde 2002; AOS Bulletin Vol 75 No 11 2006 photo; AOS Bulletin Vol 77 No 12 2006 photo; AOS Bulletin Vol 76 No 4 2007 photo; Orchid Digest Vol 73 #1 2009 drawing;
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Cattleya mendelii O Brien 1883 var coerula
A blue color variety of the previous species.
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; AOS Bulletin Vol 75 No 11 2006 photo
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