Cattleya mooreana Withner, Allison & Guenard 1988 SUBGENUS Stellata Withner 1988

Flower Closeup Photo by Mauro Rosim

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Common Name Moore's Cattleya [Lee Moore American Orchid Collector Peru 1900's] to current]

Flower Size 2 3/4" [6 cm]

A newly discovered, unifoliate, epiphytic species from central and northeast Peru in wet montane forest on large, lower riverine trees at elevations of 990 meters that is named after Lee Moore, of Miami Florida and has clavate, compressed, lightly sulcate, stiffly erect pseudobulbs with soon evanescent basal sheaths and carries a single, apical, oval-elliptic to oblong-elliptic, obtuse, coriaceous, leaf with a basal spathe from which it blooms on a 2 3/4" [6 cm]long, few [2 to 4] flowered, long-lived inflorescence arising on a newly maturing pseudobulb with fragrant flowers held at mid-leaf height and occuring in the summer.

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *The Catttleya and their Relatives Withner Vol 1 1988 photo fide; Icones Orchidacearum Peruvianum Plate 013 Bennett & Christenson 1993 drawing fide; Orchid Species of Peru Zelenko Bermudez 2009 photo fide; Orquideas del Peru Freuler 2010 photo fide; Las Orquideas del Peru Izerskyy & Bezverhov 2011 photo fide

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