Cattleya leopoldii Versch. 1854 SUBGENUS Falcata SECTION Guttatae [Cogn.] Withner 1989 Photo courtesy of Wilma Braga

Plant ensitu in Bahia Brazil Photo courtesy of Sidney Marçal

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Common Name King Leopold's Cattleya [Belgian King 1800's]

Flower Size 2 3/4" to 4 3/8" [7 to 11 cm]

Found in coastal forests below 100 meters in Southern Brazil as a large, bifoliate to trifoliate, epiphyte with cylindrical, slightly thickened apically pseudobulb subtended by white sheaths and carrying 2 apical, oblong-elliptic, leathery leaves with sharp to serrated edges that blooms in the mid-summer on an erect, few to several [3 to 10] flowered racemose inflorescence that is subtended by a green sheath on a newly arising pseudsobulb and has fragrant flowers.

Synonyms Cattleya guttata Lindley var leopoldii Lem 1885; Epidendrum eliatus var leopoldi Rchb.f 1862

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Xenia Orchidaceae Rchb.f 1862 as Epidendrum elatius var leopoldii; Xenia Orchidaceae vol 2 Rchb.f 1873 as Epidendrum elatius drawing fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 26 No 2 1957 drawing; AOS Bulletin Vol 27 No 9 1958 photo as C guttata var leopoldii; AOS Bulletin Vol 29 No 2 1960; AOS Bulletin Vol 35 No 10 1966; AOS Bulletin Vol 9 1970 photo as C guttata var leopoldii; Die Orchideen #10 37-40a tafel 10 Rudolph Schlechter 1971 photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 38 No 1 1974 photo fide; Orchidaceae Brasilienses Pabst & Dungs 1975; Orchid Digest Vol 46 No 2 1982 as C x sororia photo/drawing fide; Orchid Digest Vol 48 No 6 1984 photo fide; AOS Bulletin vol 53 no 7 1984 photo as C guttata var leopoldii; Orchid Digest Vol 49 No 5 1985 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 54 No 11 1985; The Cattleya and their Relatives Withner Vol 1 1988 photo ok; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; Schlechteriana Vol 4 No 1/2 1993 photo; Manual of Orchids Stewart 1995; Manual of Cultivated Orchids Bechtel, Cribb and Laurent 1982; Orchids of Brazil McQueen 1993; Schlechteriana Vol 4 No 4 1993 as C tigrina var caerula; Growing Orchids Vol 2 Rentoul 1982; An Illustrated Encyclopedia of Orchids Pridgeon 1982; The Brazilian Bifoliate Cattleyas and Their Color Variations Fowlie 1977; Orchids of Malaya Holttum 1957; AOS Bulletin Vol 71 No 12 2002; AOS Bulletin Vol 77 No 4 2008 photo

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