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Cattleya granulosa Lindl. 1842 SUBGENUS Falcata SECTION Granulosae [Fowlie]Withner 1989

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Cattleya granulosa Lindl. 1842 var semi alba

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Common Name Granulose Cattleya

Flower Size 6" [15 cm]

Found in Pernambuco and Alagoas states of Brazil in hills near the coast in swampy areas at elevations of 600 to 900 meters on trees in the hills near the coast as a stout, large sized, warm to cool growing, upright epiphyte with elongate, cylindrical, laterally compressed pseudobulbs carrying 2 apical, oblong-lanceolate, or elliptic-ovate, coriaceous, obtuse leaves that blooms in the spring and early summer on a terminal, short, few to several [5 to 8] flowered inflorescence with glossy and thick, long-lived, fragrant rosy-floral scented , color variable flowers.

Synonyms Cattleya buyssoniana O'Brien 1890; Cattleya granulosa var. buyssoniana O'Brien 1890; Cattleya granulosa var. russeliana Lindley 1845; Epidendrum granulosum Rchb.f 1861

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Edwards's Bot. Reg. 28: t. 1 Lindley 1842;

Edwards's Bot. Reg. 28: t. 1 Lindley 1842 TYPE Drawing;

Edwards's Bot. Reg. 31: t. 59 Lindley 1845 as C granulosa var russeliana;

Edwards's Bot. Reg. 31: t. 59 Lindley 1845 as C granulosa var russeliana drawing fide;

Ann. Bot. Syst. 6: 319 Rchb.f 1861 as Epidendrum granulosum

"Xenia Orchidaceae; 33 Rchb.f 1862 as Epidendrum granulosum;

Gard. Chron., ser. 3, 8: 588 O'Brien 1890 as C buyssoniana

Gard. Chron., ser. 3, 8: 588 O'Brien 1890 as C granulosa var buyssoniana;

Atlas des Orchidees Cultivees Constantin 1920 drawing fide;

Atlas des Orchidees Cultivees Constantin 1920 as C granulosa var buyssoniana drawing good;

AOS Bulletin Vol 26 #2 1957 drawing fide;