~Cattleya patinii Cgn. 1900 - See Cattleya deckeri Klotsch 1855 Photo Courtesy of Patricia Harding

Common Name Patin's Cattleya [French Orchid Collector 1800's]

Flower Size

Found in Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Venezuela and Trinidada and Tobago in humid forests at elevations of 30 to 800 meters as a caespitose, small sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with fusiform, furrowed, bifoliate pseudobulbs with elliptic to oblong, fleshy leaves which blooms on a terminal, 3' [7.5 cm] long, erect, few to several [4 to 8] flowered, racemose inflorescence arising on a newly matured psedobulb, subtended by a basal sheath occuring in the fall. The major difference in this species versus Cattleya skinneri is that skinnerii blooms in the spring and has a white tubular base to the lip.

Synonyms Cattleya skinneri var autumnalis Allen 1942; Cattleya skinneri var patinii 1914; Guarianthe patinii (Cogn.) Dressler & W.E. Higgins 2003

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Venezuelan Orchids Illustrated Vol 1 Dunsterville & Garay 1959 drawing fide; Flora de Venezuela Foldats Volumen XV Part 3 1970 as C skinneri var patinii; Die Orchideen #10 37-40a tafel 10 Rudolph Schlechter 1971 photo fide; Orchids of Venezuela An Illustrated Field Guide Vol 1 Dunsterville & Garay 1979 drawing fide; The Cattleya and Their Relatives Withner Vol 1 1988; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 1408 Mora & Atwood 1992 drawing fide; Field Guide to the Orchids of Costa Rica and Panama Dressler 1993; Orchids of Venezuela [An illustrated field guide] Vol. 1 Ramiro and Carnevali 2000 drawing fide; Vanishing Beauty; Native Costa Rican Orchids Vol 1 Pupulin 2005 as Guarianthe patinii; Libro Rojo de Plantas De Colombia Vol 6 Primera Parte Saenz 2007

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