Cattleya loddigesii Lindl. 1823 subgen Intermedia [Cogn.] Withner 1989 Photo courtesy of Jay Pfahl

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Common Name Loddiges' Cattleya [English orchid collector and nurseryman 1800's

Flower Size 4 1/2" [11.25 cm]

A medium sized, cool to warm growing, bifoliate epiphyte or lithophyte that is from near the coast from Bahia Brazil south to Argentina and Paraguay, in both sun and shade with cylindrical, narrowing basally pseudobulb carrying 2 apical, elliptic-oblong, leathery, obtuse leaves and blooms in the late summer on a terminal, 12" [30 cm] long, long-lived, few to several [2 to 9] flowered inflorescence subtended by a small, broad, dried sheath that has waxy, fragrant, long-lived, color variable flowers.

Synonyms Cattleya arembergii Scheidw. 1843; Cattleya obrieniana Rolfe 1889; Cattleya ovata Lindley 1838; Epidendrum canaliculatum Vell. 1825; Epidendrum harrisoniae Rchb.f; Epidendrum loddigesii Rchb.f 1861; Epidendrum violaceum Lodd. 1819

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchidaceae Brasilienses Pabst & Dungs 1975; Botanica's Orchids Laurel Glen 2002; The Catttleya and their Relatives Withner Vol 1 1988; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1987; Manual of Orchids Stewart 1995; Manual of Cultivated Orchids Bechtel, Cribb and Laurent 1982; Orchids of Brazil McQueen 1993; 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;

Cattleya loddigesii Lindl. 1823 var alba subgen Intermedia [Cogn.] Withner 1989 Photo courtesy of Eric Hunt plant grown by Scott Davis at White Oak Orchids

An all white variety of the previous species.