Cattleya schilleriana Rchb.f 1857 subgen Falcata sec Guttatae [Cogn.] Withnere 1989
Another Clone Photo courtesy of Jay Pfahl
Common Name Consul Schiller's Cattleya [Germman Orchid Enthusiast 1800's]
Flower Size 4 1/2" [11.25 cm]
Found in Brazil as a small sized, cool to hot growing, epiphytic, bifoliate orchid growing on hardwood thickets on cliff faces with summer seapage and a river below at elevations of sealevel to 800 meters yet there is no rain between summer and fall. This species has club-shaped, sulcate, often tinted reddish-purple pseudobulbs carrying 2 apical, elliptic-oblong, spreading, deep green above, reddish purple below leaves that blooms in the summer and fall on a terminal, short, long-lived, 1 to 5 flowered inflorescence with fragrant, waxy flowers.
Synonyms Cattleya aclandiae var shilleriana Jenn. 1875; Cattleya regnelii Warner 1865; Epidendrum schillerianum Rchb.f 1861
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Orchidaceae Brasilienses Pabst & Dungs 1972; The Cattleya and their Relatives Withner Vol 1 1988; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1987; Botanicas Orchids Laurel Glen 2002; Manual of Orchids Stewart 1995; Manual of Cultivated Orchids Bechtel; Cribb & Laurent 1982; Orchids of Malaya Holttum 1957; Growing Orchids Vol 2 Rentoul 1982; An Illustrated Encyclopedia of Orchids Pridgeon 1982; Flora's Orchids Nash & La Croix 2005; Orchids Of Brazil McQueen 1993;
Cattleya schilleriana Rchb. f. var. coerulescens 1857