Cattleya rex O'Brien 1890 SUBGENUS Cattleya SECTION Xantheae Withner 1988
Photo by © David Morris
Drawing by © Rchb.f
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Common Name King of the Cattleyas - In Moyobamba, Peru "Golondrina" [swallow]
Flower Size 7" [17.5 cm]
Found in Colombia, Peru and Bolivia in wet montane forests high up on exposed tree trunks at elevations around 1350 meters as a small to medium sized, cool growing epiphyte with a woody, short, branching rhizome with crowded, slightly flattened, fusiform-clavate, unifoliate pseudobulbs subtended by 5 to 6 scarious sheaths and a single, apical, elliptic-oblong or oblong, obtuse to shortly acute, stiffly coriaceous, yellow green leaf that blooms in the winter and spring on a terminal, subtended by a large basal green sheath, arising on a newly maturing pseudobulb, erect, subumbellate, 6" [15 cm] long, yet shorter than the leaves, loosely few to several [3 to 8] flowered inflorescence and carrying fragrant, color variable flowers.
Synonyms Cattleya labiata var rex [O'Brien]Schlechter ?
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Gard. Chron., ser. 3, 8: 684 Rchb.f 1890;
Curtis Bot Mag 137 tab 8377 1911 drawing fide
Die Orchideen Schlechter 1915 as C labiata var rex;
Orchids of Malaya Holttum 1957;
Orchids of Peru Schweinfurth 1958;
AOS Bulletin Vol 27 No 9 1958 drawing ok;
Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965 as C labiata var rex;
Die Orchideen 3 Auflage Bd 1 Sonderabdruck aus Schlechter Lieferung 10 576 - 632 Brieger, Maatsch and Senghas 1977 photo fide;
Growing Orchids Vol 2 Rentoul 1982;
The Cattleya and their Relatives Withner Vol 1 1988 photo fide;
The Manual of Cultivated Orchids Bechtel, Cribb and Laurent 1992 drawing/photo fide;
Icones Orchidacearum Peruviarum plate 014 Bennett & Christenson 1993 drawing fide;
Manual of Orchids Stewart 1995;
AOS Bulletin Vol 69 No 9 2000 drawing/photo fide;
AOS Bulletin Vol 72 No 1 2003 photo fide;
AOS Bulletin Vol 75 No 2 2006 photo fide;
AOS Bulletin Vol 75 No 9 2006 photo fide;
AOS Bulletin Vol 77 No 10 2008 photo fide;
Orchid Species of Peru Zelenko Bermudez 2009 photo fide;
Orchid Digest Vol 74 #1 2010 photo fide;
AOS Bulletin Vol 79 #2 2010 photo fide;
Orquideas del Peru Freuler 2010 photo fide;
Las Orquideas del Peru Izerskyy & Bezverhov 2011 photo fide;
AOS Bulletin Vol 83 #1 2014 photo fide;
AOS Bulletin Vol 85 #9 2016 drawing fide;
AOS Bulletin Vol 86 #2 2017 drawing/photo fide;
Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol IV:477 Szlatchetko & Kolanowska 2023 photo fide;
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