Cattleya warneri T. Moore ex Warner 1862 SUBGENUS Cattleya SECTION Cattleya Lindley
Color Variation Photo courtesy of Jean Claude George
Another Clone Photo courtesy of Wilma Braga
Another Clone Photo courtesy of Jay Pfahl
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Common Name Warner's Cattleya [English Orchid Collector 1800's]
Flower Size 8" [20 cm]
A hot to warm growing epiphyte from Brazil with club-shaped, slightly compressed pseudobulbs subtended by several greenish, thin textured sheaths and carrying a single, apical, oblong, obtuse, coriaceous leaf that blooms in the late spring and early summer on a terminal, short, few flowered inflorescence subtended by a doulble sheath that has fragrant, highly color variable flowers. This species i similar to Cattleya labiata yet differs in having larger, strongly fragrant flowers.
Synonyms Cattleya labiata var. warneri (T. Moore ex Warner) H.J. Veitch 1883; Cattleya trilabiata Barb. Rodr. 1877; Cattleya warneri var. amoena L.C.Menezes 1992; Cattleya warneri var. caerulea L.C.Menezes 1992; Cattleya warneri var. semialba L.C.Menezes 1992
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list IPNI ;>
Orchids of Malaya Holttum 1957; Orchidaceae Brasilienses Pabst & Dungs 1972; Growing Orchids Vol 2 Rentoul 1982; An Illustrated Encyclopedia of Orchids Pridgeon 1982; Manual of Cultivated Orchids Bechtel; Cribb & Laurent 1982; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1987 as C labiata var warneri; The Cattleya and their Relatives Withner Vol 1 1988; Orchids of Brazil McQueen 1993; Manual of Orchids Stewart 1995; AOS Bulletin Vol 66 No 3 1997 photo; AOS Bulletin Vol 69 No 6 2000 photo; AOS Bulletin Vol 72 No 1 2003 photo; AOS Bulletin Vol 76 No 4 2007 photo;
Cattleya warneri T. Moore ex Warner 1862 var alba
An albino version of the previous species.
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list IPNI ;>
AOS Bulletin Vol 69 No 6 2000 photo;
Cattleya warneri T. Moore ex Warner 1862 var coerula
A bluish color version of the type species.
