Sophronitis wittigiana Barb. Rodr. 1878
Another Clone Photos courtesy of Jay Pfahl
Another Clone Photo courtesy of Richard Korber - Australia copyrighted © Flower and Plant Photo courtesy of David Jubineau and His Bulbophyllum Pages Copyright © Common Name Wittig's Sophronitis [German Plant Collector - Brazil 1800's]
Flower Size 2 1/2 to 3" [4 to 6.5 cm]
Found in the central mountain range of Espiritu Santo State, Brazil in tropical forests as a miniature warm to cool growing epiphyte at elevations of 700 to 2000 meters in gully swamps on mossy, rough-barked trees with globulbar pseudobulbs that are arranged in two rows along the rhizome and carry a single, apical, ovate, stiff, leathery leaf that blooms on an apical, longer than other Sophronitis, single to few flowered inflorescence in nature in the spring but in cultivation it occurs in winter. Mount this species on cork and give bright light, cool to warm temperatures, with ample water year round with a lessening in the coldest part of the winter.
Synonyms Cattleya wittigiana (Barb.Rodr.) Van den Berg 2008; Hadrolaelia wittigiana ( Barb.Rodr. ) Chiron & V.P.Castro 2002; Sophronitis grandiflora var rosea Hort 1884; Sophronitis purpurea Rchb.f 1878; Sophronitis rosea Gostling 1884; Sophronitis rosea var wittigiana Barb Rodr.; Sophronitis violacea O'Brien 1886; Sophronitis wittigiana f. candida Roeth & O.Gruss 2005; Sophronitis wittigiana var. longifolia Cogn. 1901
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Orchid Digest Vol 36 No 5 1972 photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 42 No 2 1978 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 47 No 7 1978 as S rosea var wittigiana; Orchid Digest Vol 47 No 2 1983 photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 47 No 3 1983 photo fide; Orchid Digest 51 Vol 1 1987 photo fide; Cattleyas and Their Relatives Withner Vol 3 1990 photo/drawing fide; Orchid Digest Vol 55 No 4 1991 photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 58 No 4 1994 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 72 No 7 2003 photo; AOS Bulletin Vol 73 No 5 2004 photo
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