Cattleya × gaezeriana Campacci 2007
Photo/TYPE Drawing by © Campacci
Common Name Gaezer's Cattleya [Brazilian Orchid enthusiast and discoverer of species current]
Flower Size 2.6" [6.5 cm]
Found in Minas Gerais State of Brazil at elevations around 850 meters as a large sized, warm to cool growing lithophyte and natural hybrid between C amethestoglossa and C bicolor with strong, erect, sulcate, cylindrical pseudobulbs carrying 2, apical, coriaceous, elliptic leaves that blooms in the fall on an arching, to more than 12" [30 cm] long, densely many flowered inflorescence.
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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
*Colet. Orquídeas Brasil. 5: 138 Campacci 2007 drawing/photo fide
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