Cattleya warneri T. Moore ex Warner 1862 Subgen Cattleya sec 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 ;> Orchidaceae Brasilienses Pabst & Dungs 1972; The Cattleya and their Relatives Withner Vol 1 1988; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1987 as C labiata var warmeri; Manual of Orchids Stewart 1995; Manual of Cultivated Orchids Bechtel; Cribb & Laurent 1982; Orchids of Malaya Holttum 1957; Growing Orchids Vol 2 Rentoul 1982; An Illustrated Encyclopedia of Orchids Pridgeon 1982; Orchids of Brazil McQueen 1993;
Cattleya warneri T. Moore ex Warner 1862 var alba
An albino version of the previous species.
Cattleya warneri T. Moore ex Warner 1862 var coerula
A bluish color version of the type species.
