Cattleya gaskelliana Rchb.f 1883 SUBGENUS Cattleya SECTION Cattleya Lindley Photo courtesy of Dale Borders
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Common Name Gaskell's Cattleya [English Orchid Grower 1800's]
Flower Size 5" [17.5 cm]
A medium sized, cool to warm growing epiphytic species that is found at altitudes of 700 to 1000 meters in Colombia and Venezuela with clavate, compressed, grooved pseudobulbs subtended by greyish sheaths nad carrying a single, apical, elliptic-ovate, thick, coriaceous leaf and blooms in the late spring and late summer on a terminal, 3 3/4" [9 cm]long, few, fragrant flowered, inflorescence arising on a mature pseudobulb subtended by a large basal sheath.
Synonyms Cattleya labiata var gaskelliana N.E. Brown 1883
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; AOS Bulletin Vol 29 No 2 1960; Venezuelan Orchids Illustrated Vol 6 Dunsterville & Garay 1976; Flora de Venezuela Foldats Volumen XV Part 3 1970 as C labiata var gaskelliana; The Catttleya and their Relatives Withner Vol 1 1988; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1987 as C labiata var gaskeliana; Schlechteriana Vol 4 No 3 1993 photo; Manual of Orchids Stewart 1995; AOS Bulletin Vol 66 No 3 1997 photo; Manual of Cultivated Orchids Bechtel, Cribb and Laurent 1982; AOS Bulletin Vol 70 No 6 2001 photo; AOS Bulletin Vol 72 No 1 2003 photo; Flora's Orchids Nash & La Croix 2005; Growing Orchids Vol 2 Rentoul 1982; Orchids of Venezuela; An Illustrated Field Guide Dunsterville & Garay 1979; Orchids of Malaya Holttum 1957 as C labiata var gaskeliana; AOS Bulletin Vol 74 No 12 2005 photo; AOS Bulletin Vol 75 No 8 2006 photo as C gaskelliana f alba; AOS Bulletin Vol 76 No 4 2007 photo; AOS Bulletin Vol 77 No 10 2008 photo; AOS Bulletin Vol 77 No 11 2008 photo;
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~Cattleya gaskelliana var coerula Rchb.f 1883
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; AOS Bulletin Vol 39 No 5 1970; AOS Bulletin Vol 74 No 12 2005 photo; AOS Bulletin Vol 75 No 8 2006 photo; AOS Bulletin Vol 76 No 4 2007 photo;
