Cattleya velutina Rchb. f. 1870 SUBGENUS Aclandia Withner 1989 Photo courtesy of Lourens Grobler
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Common Name Velvety Cattleya
Flower Size 4" [10 cm]
A medium sized, cool to hot growing, epiphytic orchid from Brazil on plains in small clumps of brush giving shade from the sun with long and slender, clustered, jointed, grooved pseudobulb carrying 2 apical, oblong-lorate, coriaceous, obtuse leaves that blooms in the late spring and summer on a terminal, 5" [12.5 cm] long, 4 to 7 flowered, long-lived inflorescence that has highly fragrant, glossy and heavy textured flowers.
Synonyms Cattleya alutacea B.-R. 1892; Cattleya alutacea B.-R. var velutina B.-R. 1882; Cattleya fragrans B.-R. 1882
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list IPNI ; AOS Bulletin Vol 26 No 2 1957 drawing; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; AOS Bulletin Vol 35 No 10 1966; Die Orchideen #10 37-40a tafel 10 Rudolph Schlechter 1971 photo fide; Orchidaceae Brasilienses Pabst & Dungs 1972; Orchid Digest Vol 38 No 1 1974 photo fide; The Brazilian Bifoliate Cattleya and their Color Variations Fowlie 1977; AOS Bulletin VOl 54 No 11 1985 photo; The Cattleya and their Relatives Withner Vol 1 1988 photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 55 No 4 1991 photo fide; Orchids of Brazil McQueen 1993; Manual of Orchids Stewart 1995; Botanica's Orchids Laurel Glen 2002;
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