Cattleya lawrenceana Rchb. f. 1885 SUBGENUS Cattleya SECTION Cattleya Lindley Photo courtesy of © Lourens Grobler
Another Close Photo courtesy of David Hunt
Another color form Photo courtesy of Dale Borders
Another Color Form Photo courtesy of Jay Pfahl
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Common Name Sir Trevor Lawrence's Cattleya [English Orchid Enthusiast 1800's]
Flower Size 5" [12.5 cm]
This is a Venezuelan and Guyanan species found especially atop Mount Roraima at elevations around 250 to 1200 meters as a medium sized, hot to cool growing epiphyte with erect, clavate, sulcate, compressed, green to purplish green pseudobulbs subtended by several persistent white sheaths and carrying a single, apical, oblong-ligulate, thick, rigid, obtuse, green with purple spotting leaf that blooms in the spring and early summer on a usually erect, 4" [10 cm] long, terminal, racemose, few to several [5 to 8] flowered inflorescence subtended by a broad brownish-purple spathe.
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Venezuelan Orchids Vol 2 Dunsterville & Garay 1961; Flora de Venezuela Foldats Volumen XV Part 3 1970; Die Orchideen #10 37-40a tafel 10 Rudolph Schlechter 1971 photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 37 No 4 1973 photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 47 No 3 1983 photo fide; The Catttleya and their Relatives Withner Vol 1 1988 photo fide; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1987; Manual of Orchids Stewart 1995; Manual of Cultivated Orchids Bechtel, Cribb and Laurent 1982; Growing Orchids Vol 2 Rentoul 1982; An Illustrated Encyclopedia of Orchids Pridgeon 1982; Orchids of Venezuela An Illustrated Field Guide Vol 1 Dunsterville & Garay 1979 drawing fide; Orchids of Malaya Holttum 1957; Venezuela; Paraiso de Orquideas Romero 1997 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 71 No 4 2002 photo; Flora of the Venezuelan Guayana Vol 7 Steyermark, Berry, Yatskievych and Holst 2003 drawing fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 72 No 1 2003 photo; AOS Bulletin Vol 75 No 9 2006 photo; AOS Bulletin Vol 76 No 4 2007 photo;
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