Cattleya tenuis Campacci & Vedovello 1983
Photos by © Jay Pfahl
Photo by © E Schnurr
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Southern Hemisphere
Common Name The Slender Stemmed Cattleya
Flower Size 4" [10 cm]
Found inland in Pernambuco and Bahia states of Brazil at elevations of 1000 to 1200 meters in dense, semi-arid thickets on small tree trunks or on the rocks below as a medium sized, cool to warm growing epiphyte or lithophyte from with a long [to 3'], slender, cylindrical, elongate pseudobulb carrying 2 apical, thin, narrow, pointed, spreading, elliptic-oblong, very coriaceous leaves that needs a distinct dry winter rest which in turn will bring about blooming, mostly in the late summer and fall on a terminal, to 1 1/2' [45 cm] long, few to several flowered inflorescence subtended by a broad sheath and giving rise to heavy textured, waxy, fragrant flowers that can be long or short lived.
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
*Circulo Paulista de Orquidofilos 1: 1 Campacci & Vedovello 1983;
The Cattleya and their Relatives Withner Vol 1 1988 photo fide;
Icones Orchidacearum Brasilienses I Plate 040 Neto & Campacci 1985 drawing fide;
Orchid Digest Vol 55 No 2 1991 photo fide;
Orquideas Da Chapada Diamantina Brito & Cribb 2005 drawing/photo fide;
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