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Cattleya trianaei Lindley & Rchb.f 1860 SUBGENUS Cattleya SECTION Cattleya Lindley Photo courtesy of Camp-Lota-Noise Orchids

Another Clone, Collected in Cundinamarca, Colombia Photo courtesy of Jay Pfahl

Common Name Dr. Triana's Cattleya [Colombian Botansit 1800's], in Colombia Flor de Mayo

Flower Size 8" [20 cm]

The Colombian National Flower, is a large sized, hot to cool growing epiphyte occuring in all 3 cordillera of Colombia with narrowly clavate, grooved, shiney yellow orange pseudobulbs carring a single, apical, oblong to elliptic-oblong, rounded and notched apically leaf that blooms in the winter on a terminal, to 12" [30 cm] long, few to several [3 to 14] flowered inflorescence subtended by a basal sheath that has large, fragrant, color variable flowers and is a large cool to hot growing epiphyte.

Synonyms Cattleya bogotensis Linden ex C. Morr. 1897; Cattleya kimballiana L. Linden & Rodigas 1887; Cattleya labiata var. trianaei [Lindley & Rchbf] Duch. 1860; Cattleya lindigii Karst; Epidendrum labiatum var trianaei Rchb.f 1861

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Xenia Orchidaceae Rchb.f 1862 as Epidendrum labiatum var trianaei; Beitrage Zur Orchideenkunde Von Colombia 27:138 Schlechter 1924; AOS Bulletin Vol 26 No 2 1957 drawing; Orchids of Malaya Holttum 1957; AOS Bulletin Vol 29 No 2 1960; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965 C labiata var trianae; AOS Bulletin Vol 39 No 4 1970 photo; AOS Bulletin Vol 39 No 5 1970; Orquideologia Vol 12 No 2/3 1977/8; AOS Bulletin Vol 47 No 7 1978 photo; Orchid Digest Vol 42 No 6 1978 photos fide; Orquideologia Vol 14 No 1 1979; Orchid Digest Vol 44 No 1 1980 photo fide; An Illustrated Encyclopedia of Orchids Pridgeon 1982; Manual of Cultivated Orchids Bechtel; Cribb & Laurent 1982; Growing Orchids Vol 2 Rentoul 1982; AOS Bulletin Vol 52 No 1 1983 drawing; AOS Bulletin Vol 53 No 10 1984 photo; AOS Bulletin Vol 57 No 2 1988 photo; The Cattleya and their Relatives Withner Vol 1 1988 photo fide; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 1 COS 1990 photo fide; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 5 COS 1994 photos fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 63 No 3 1994 photo; Orchid Digest Vol 58 No 2 1994 photo fide; Manual of Orchids Stewart 1995; Orchid Digest Vol 59 No 2 1995 photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 59 No 4 1995 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 66 No 3 1997; AOS Bulletin Vol 66 No 12 1997 photo; AOS Bulletin Vol 68 No 6 1999 photo; Oasis Vol 1 No 1 2000 photo; Botanica's Orchids Laurel Glen 2002; AOS Bulletin Vol 72 No 1 2003 photo; AOS Bulletin Vol 72 No 4 2003 photo; Orquideologia Vol. 23 No 1 2004 photo; Orquideologia Vol. 23 No 2 2004 photo; The Colombian Cattleya and their Color Variations Toulemonde 2004; AOS Bulletin Vol 74 No 1 2005 photo; AOS Bulletin Vol 74 No 10 2005 photo; AOS Bulletin Vol 74 No 12 2005 photo; Flora's Orchids Nash & La Croix 2005; AOS Bulletin Vol 75 No 6 2006 photo; AOS Bulletin Vol 75 No 9 2006 photo; AOS Bulletin Vol 76 No 5 2007 photo; AOS Bulletin Vol 77 no 1 2008 photo; Orquideologia Vol 26 No 1 2009 photo

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