!Cattleyopsis lindenii [Lindley]Cogn. 1910

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Common Name Linden's Cattleyopsis [Belgian orchid collector 1800's]

Flower Size 1.2 to 1.6" [3 to 4 cm]

Found in Cuba, Bahamas and Bermuda? on trees and bushes in coastal copses and pine woods at an elevation of sea level up to 200 meters as a small sized, hot growing, xerophytic epiphyte o requiring high light and humidity, with ovoid-cylindric pseudobulbs carrying 1 or 2, apical, linear-oblong, obtuse leaves that blooms in the late spring and early fall on a terminal, slender, erect to arching, sometimes branching, 8" to 3' [20 to 90 cm] long inflorescence with up to 12 flowers held at the apex.

Synonyms Bletia lindeni Rchb. f. 1862; Broughtonia lindenii (Lindl.) Dressler 1966; Cattleyopsis delicatula Lem 1853; Cattleyopsis guanensis Acuña 1939; Cattleyopsis northropiorum Cogn. 1910; *Laelia lindenii Lindley 1846; Laeliopsis lindenii [Lindl]Lindley 1853

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

Orchid. Linden.: 10 Lindley 1846 as Laelia lindenii;

Paxton's Fl. Gard. 3: 156 Lindley 1853 as Laweliopsis lindenii; Jard. Fleur. 4(Misc.): 59 Lem 1854 as Cattleyopsis delicatula;

Ann. Bot. Syst. 6: 431 Rchb.f 1862 as Bletia lindenii

Xenia Orchidaceae vol 2: 62 Rchb.f 1862 as Bletia lindeni;

* Symbolae Antillanae Vol VI: 544 Orchidaceae Urban 1909;

Symbolae Antillanae Vol VI: 545 Orchidaceae Urban 1909 as C northropiorum;

Die Orchideen Schlechter 1915;

Die Orchideen Schlechter 1915 as C northropiorum;

Bol. Estaçión Exp. Agron. Santiago de las Vegas 60: 109 Acuña 1938 publ. 1939 as C guanensis no Latin descr.

AOS Bulletin Vol 32 No 3 1963 as Laeliopsis lilacina photo ok;

Taxon 15: 241 Dressler 1966 as Broughtonia lindenii

Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965

Orchideen 3 Auflage Bd 1 Sonderabdruck aus Schlechter Lieferung 10 576 - 632 Brieger, Maatsch and Senghas 1977 not maybe C ortgiesiana;

Die Orchideen 3 Auflage Bd 1 Sonderabdruck aus Schlechter Lieferung 10 576 - 632 Brieger, Maatsch and Senghas 1977 as C nortropiorum;

AOS Bulletin vol 53 no 7 1984 drawing fide;

The Manual of Cultivated Orchids Bechtel, Cribb and Laurent 1992 drawing fide;

Manual of Orchids Stewart 1995;

The Cattleya and their Relatives Withner Vol 4 1996 photo fide;

Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Lieferung 42/3 2001 photo fide;

Orchidaceae Antillanae Nir 2000 as Broughtonia lindenii;

Botanica's Orchids Laurel Glen 2002;

Flora's Orchids Nash & La Croix 2005;

The Orchids of Cuba Llamacho & Larramendi 2005 as Broughtonia lindenii photo fide;

AOS Bulletin Vol 75 No 2 2006 photo fide;

AOS Bulletin Vol 75 No 8 2006 photo fide;

Orchid Flora of the Greater Antilles Ackerman 2014 as Broughtonia linenii drawing fide

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