!Cattleyopsis lindenii [Lindley]Cogn. 1910
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Common Name Linden's Cattleyopsis [Belgian orchid collector 1800's]
Flower Size 2" [3 to 4 cm]
Found in Cuba, Bahamas and Bermuda? on trees and bushes in coastal copses and pine woods at an elevation of sea level up to 200 meters as a small sized, hot growing, xerophytic epiphyte o requiring high light and humidity, with ovoid-cylindric pseudobulbs carrying 1 or 2, apical, linear-oblong, obtuse leaves that blooms in the late spring and early fall on a terminal, slender, erect to arching, sometimes branching, 8" to 3' [20 to 90 cm] long inflorescence with up to 12 flowers held at the apex.
Synonyms Bletia lindeni Rchb. f. 1862; Broughtonia lilacina Henfr. 1902; Broughtonia lindenii (Lindl.) Dressler 1966; Broughtonia violacea hort. ex T. Moore & Ayres; Cattleyopsis delicatula Lem 1853; Cattleyopsis guanensis Acuña 1939; Cattleyopsis northropiorum Cogn. 1910; *Laelia lindenii Lindley 1846; Laeliopsis lindenii [Lindl]Lindley 1853
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Xenia Orchidaceae vol 2 Rchb.f 1862 as Bletia lindeni; Symbolae Antillanae Vol VI Orchidaceae Urban 1909; Symbolae Antillanae Vol VI Orchidaceae Urban 1909 as C northropiorum; Die Orchideen Schlechter 1915; Die Orchideen Schlechter 1915 as C northropiorum; AOS Bulletin Vol 32 No 3 1963 as Laeliopsis lilacina photo ok; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; AOS Bulletin Vol 35 No 4 1966 as Laeliopsis lilacina photo ok; Die Orchideen 3 Auflage Bd 1 Sonderabdruck aus Schlechter Lieferung 10 576 - 632 Brieger, Maatsch and Senghas 1977 not maybe C ortgiesiana; Die Orchideen 3 Auflage Bd 1 Sonderabdruck aus Schlechter Lieferung 10 576 - 632 Brieger, Maatsch and Senghas 1977 as C nortropiorum; AOS Bulletin vol 53 no 7 1984 drawing fide; The Manual of Cultivated Orchids Bechtel, Cribb and Laurent 1992 drawing fide; Manual of Orchids Stewart 1995; The Cattleya and their Relatives Withner Vol 4 1996 photo fide; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Lieferung 42/3 2001 photo fide; Orchidaceae Antillanae Nir 2000 as Broughtonia lindenii; Botanica's Orchids Laurel Glen 2002; Flora's Orchids Nash & La Croix 2005; The Orchids of Cuba Llamacho & Larramendi 2005 as Broughtonia lindenii photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 75 No 2 2006 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 75 No 8 2006 photo fide; Orchid Flora of the Greater Antilles Ackerman 2014 as Broughtonia linenii drawing fide
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