Cattleya schofieldiana Rchb.f 1882 SUBGENUS Falcata SECTION Granulosae [Fowlie]Withner 1989 Photo courtesy of Dale and Deni Borders

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Common Name Schofeld's Cattleya [English Orchid Enthusiast 1800's]

Flower Size 6" [15 cm]

Found in Brazil at altitudes up to 900 meters on trees in hills near the coast as a cool to warm growing epiphytic orchid on trees with moss and lichen as a stout, upright epiphyte with elongate, cylindrical, laterally compressed pseudobulbs carrying 2 apical, oblong-lanceolate, or elliptiuc-ovate, coriaceous, obtuse leaves that blooms in the spring and early summer on a terminal, short, few to several [5 to 8] flowers with floral similarities to Cattleya granulosa in all aspects other than flower size and color as well pseudobulb size except in this species they are larger.

Synonyms Cattleya granulosa f. schofieldiana (Rchb.f.) A.D.Hawkes in ? ; Cattleya granulosa var. banneri Rolfe 1896; *Cattleya granulosa Lindley var schofieldiana [Rchb.f] Veitch 1887; Cattleya princeps auct. 1892; Cattleya schofieldiana var. banneri (Rolfe) Fowlie 1977

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Xenia Orchidaceae Rchb.f 1862 as Epidendrum granulosum; AOS Bulletin Vol 16 No 2 1957 drawing; AOS Bulletin Vol 31 No 1 1962 photo as C granulosa var schoenfieldiana; Die Orchideen #10 37-40a tafel 10 Rudolph Schlechter 1971 photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 38 no 6 1974 photo fide; Orchidaceae Brasilienses Pabst & Dungs 1975 as C granulosa var schofieldiana; AOS Bulletin Vol 50 No 11 1981 photo; AOS Bulletin Vol 54 No 3 1985 photo; AOS Bulletin Vol 54 No 11 1985 photo; The Cattleya and their Relatives Withner Vol 1 1988 photo fide; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965 as C granulosa fma. schofieldiana; Manual of Orchids Stewart 1995; Manual of Cultivated Orchids Bechtel, Cribb and Laurent 1982 as C granulosa var schofieldiana; Orchids of Brazil McQueen 1993; The Brazilian Bifoliate Cattleyas and Their Color Variations Fowlie 1977

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