Cattleya × hybrida H.J.Veitch 1863
Photo by © Lourens Grobler
TYPE Drawing of C x itatiayae by © Porto
Common Name The Hybrid Cattleya
Flower Size
Found inbetween Rio de Janiero and Minas Gerais states of Brazil at elevations around 600 meters as a small to medium sized, warm growing epiphyte that is natural hybrid between C. guttata and C. loddigesii with elongate, cylindrical, articulate pseudobulbs carrying 2 apical, rigid, elliptic-oblong, obtuse, shortly petiolate base leaves that blooms in the summer on an erect, robust, flexuous, pale green, arising through a spathe, [7 to 14 cm] long, 1 to 10 flowered inflorescence.
Synonyms Cattleya × itatiayae Porto 1918; Cattleya × picta auct. 1863
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Gard. Chron. 1863: 602 J Veitch 1863;
Proc. Roy. Hort. Soc. London 3: 369 Anon 1863 as C x picta;
Arch. Jard. Bot. Rio de Janeiro 2: 66 Porto 1918 as C x itatiayae;
Arch. Jard. Bot. Rio de Janeiro 2: 66 Porto 1918 as C x itatiayae drawing fide;
Orchidaceae Brasilienses Pabst & Dungs Band I 1975 drawing fide;
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