!Cattleyopsis lindenii [Lindley]Cogn. 1910 Photo courtesy of Jay Pfahl

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Common Name Linden's Cattleyopsis [Belgian orchid collector 1800's]

Flower Size 2" [3 to 4 cm]

A small sized, hot to warm growing, xerophytic epiphyte occuring on trees and bushes in coastal copses and pine woods at an elevation of sea level up to 200 meters in Cuba, Bahamas and Bermuda?, requiring high light and humidity, with ovoid-cylindric pseudobulbs carrying 1 or 2, apical, linear-oblong, obtuse leaves that blooms on a terminal, slender, erect to arching, sometimes branching, 8" to 3' [20 to 90 cm] long inflorescence with up to 12 flowers at the apice appearing in the late spring and early fall.

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 ; The Orchids of Cuba Llamacho & Larramendi 2005 as Broughtonia lindenii; Orchidaceae Antillanae Nir 2000 as Broughtonia lindenii; The Cattleya and their Relatives Withner Vol 4 1996; Manual of Orchids Stewart 19995; Manual of Cultivated Orchids Bechtel, Cribb & Laurent 1982; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1987; Flora's Orchids Nash & La Croix 2005; Botanica's Orchids Laurel ZGlen 2002;

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