Cattleya gaskelliana Rchb.f 1883 SUBGENUS Cattleya SECTION Cattleya Lindley
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Cattleya gaskelliana var coerula Rchb.f 1883
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Drawing by Dunsterville & Garay
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Common Name Gaskell's Cattleya [English Orchid Grower 1800's]
Flower Size 7" [17.5 cm]
Found in Colombia and Venezuela at altitudes of 700 to 1000 meters as a medium sized, cool to warm growing epiphytic species with clavate, compressed, grooved pseudobulbs subtended by greyish sheaths and carrying a single, apical, elliptic-ovate, thick, coriaceous leaf and blooms in the late spring and late summer on a terminal, 3.6" [9 cm] long, few, fragrant flowered inflorescence arising on a mature pseudobulb subtended by a large basal sheath.
Synonyms Cattleya elegantissima Linden 1881; Cattleya gaskelliana f. alba (B.S.Williams) M.Wolff & O.Gruss 2007; Cattleya gaskelliana var. alba B.S.Williams 1889; Cattleya labiata var gaskelliana N.E. Brown 1883
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Hort. 28: 80 Linden 1881, nom. nud. as C elegantissima;
Gard. Chron., n.s., 19: 310 N E Brown 1883 as C labiata var gaskelliana;
*Orch.-Grow. Man., ed. 6: 182 B S Williams 1885
Orchid Album 8: t. 353 B S Williams 1889 as C gaskelliana var alba;
Lindenia 15: 99 Linden 1899 as C gaskelliana var amabilis;
Lindenia 15: 99 Linden 1899 as C gaskelliana var amabilis drawing fide;
Die Orchideen Schlechter 1915 as C labiata var gaskeliana;
Orchids of Malaya Holttum 1957 as C labiata var gaskeliana;
AOS Bulletin Vol 29 No 2 1960;
Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965 as C labiata var gaskeliana;
AOS Bulletin Vol 39 No 5 1970 as C gaskelliana var coerula
Flora de Venezuela Foldats Volumen XV Part 3 1970 as C labiata var gaskelliana;
Orchid Digest Vol 36 No 3 1972 photo fide;
Orchid Digest Vol 36 No 3 1972 as C gaskelliana var coerula photo fide;
Orchid Digest Vol 36 No 6 1972 as C gaskelliana var coerula photo fide;
Venezuelan Orchids Illustrated Vol 6 Dunsterville & Garay 1976 drawing fide;
AOS Bulletin Vol 66 No 3 1997 as C gaskelliana var alba photo fide;
Die Orchideen 3 Auflage Bd 1 Sonderabdruck aus Schlechter Lieferung 10 576 - 632 Brieger, Maatsch and Senghas 1977;
Orchids of Venezuela; An Illustrated Field Guide Vol 1 Dunsterville & Garay 1979 drawing fide;
Orquideologia Vol 15 #1 Luer & Escobar 1981;
Growing Orchids Vol 2 Rentoul 1982;
The Catttleya and their Relatives Withner Vol 1 1988 photo fide;
The Manual of Cultivated Orchids Bechtel, Cribb and Laurent 1992 photo fide;
Schlechteriana Vol 4 No 3 1993 photo fide;
Manual of Orchids Stewart 1995; AOS Bulletin Vol 66 No 3 1997 photo;
Venezuela; Paraiso de Orquideas Romero 1997 photo fide;
Orchids of Venezuela [An illustrated field guide] Vol. 1 Ramiro and Carnevali 2000 drawing fide;
AOS Bulletin Vol 70 No 6 2001 photo fide;
AOS Bulletin Vol 72 No 1 2003 photo fide;
AOS Bulletin Vol 72 No 1 2003 as C gaskelliana var alba photo fide;
AOS Bulletin Vol 73 #3 2004 photo fide;
Flora's Orchids Nash & La Croix 2005;
AOS Bulletin Vol 74 No 12 2005 photo fide;
AOS Bulletin Vol 74 No 12 2005 as C gaskelliana var coerula photo;
AOS Bulletin Vol 75 No 8 2006 photo fide;
AOS Bulletin Vol 75 No 8 2006 as C gaskelliana f alba photo Fide;
AOS Bulletin Vol 75 No 8 2006 as C gaskelliana var coerula photo;
AOS Bulletin Vol 76 No 4 2007 photo fide;
AOS Bulletin Vol 77 No 10 2008 photo fide;
AOS Bulletin Vol 77 No 11 2008 photo fide;
Orchid Digest Vol 74 #1 2010 photo fide;
AOS Bulletin Vol 79 #2 2010 photo fide;
Las Orquideas del Peru Izerskyy & Bezverhov 2011 photo fide;
AOS Bulletin Vol 85 #6 2016 photo fide;
AOS Bulletin Vol 85 #9 2016 drawing fide;
: AOS Bulletin Vol 89 #2 2020 photo fide
Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol IV:480 Szlatchetko & Kolanowska 2023 drawing fide;
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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
