Cattleya schilleriana Rchb.f 1857 SUBGENUS Falcata SECTION Guttatae [Cogn.] Withner 1989
Photos by © Jay Pfahl
Cattleya schilleriana Rchb. f. var. coerulea 1857
Photo by © Emmily 1955 and her Flickr site
Drawing of C schilleriana var. concolor
Drawing by © Hooker
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Common Name Consul Schiller's Cattleya [Germman Orchid Enthusiast 1800's]
Flower Size 4 1/2" [11.25 cm]
Found in Espirito Santo state of Brazil in hardwood thickets on cliff faces with summer seapage and a river below at elevations of sealevel to 800 meters yet there is no rain between summer and fall as a small sized, cool to hot growing, epiphytic, bifoliate orchid with club-shaped, sulcate, often tinted reddish-purple pseudobulbs carrying 2 apical, elliptic-oblong, spreading, deep green above, reddish purple below leaves that blooms in the summer and fall on a terminal, short, long-lived, 1 to 5 flowered inflorescence carrying fragrant, honey scented, waxy flowers.
Synonyms Cattleya aclandiae var shilleriana Jenn. 1875; Cattleya regnellii Veitch ex R.Hogg 1860; Cattleya schilleriana var. amaliana L.Linden & Rodigas 1886; Cattleya schilleriana var. concolor Hook. 1859; Cattleya schilleriana var. regnellii B.S.Williams 1885; Epidendrum schillerianum Rchb.f 1861
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Berliner Allg. Gartenzeitung 1857: 335 Rchb.f 1857
Bot. Mag. 85: t. 5150 Hook. 1859 as C schilleriana var concolor;
Bot. Mag. 85: t. 5150 Hook. 1859 as C schilleriana var concolor drawing fide
Gard. Year Book 1860: 70 Veitch ex Hogg. 1860 as Cattleya regnelii
Ann. Bot. Syst. 6: 318 Rchb.f 1861 as Epidendrum schilleriana;
Xenia Orchidaceae Rchb.f 2:36 1862 as Epidendrum schillerianum drawing fide;
L'orchidophile; Traité Théor. & Prat.: 246 F Buyss. 1878 as C schilleriana var regnelii;
Lindenia 2: 81 L Linden & Rodigas 1886 as C schilleriana var amaliana;
Lindenia 2: 81 L Linden & Rodigas 1886 as C schilleriana var amaliana drawing fide;
Die Orchideen Schlechter 1915;
Die Orchideen Schlechter 1915 as C schilleriana var concolor;
Atlas des Orchidees Cultivees Constantin 1920 drawing fide;
Iconografia de Orchidaceae Do Brasil Hoehne 1949 drawing fide;
Orchids of Malaya Holttum 1957;
AOS Bulletin Vol 26 No 2 1957 drawing fide;
Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965;
AOS Bulletin Vol 35 No 10 1966;
AOS Bulletin Vol 39 No 5 1970 as C schilleriana var. coerulescens
Orchid Digest Vol 34 #9 1970 drawing fide;
Orchid Digest Vol 38 No 1 1974 photo fide;
Orchid Digest Vol 38 no 6 1974 photo fide;
Orchidaceae Brasilienses Pabst & Dungs Band I 1975 drawing fide;
Die Orchideen 3 Auflage Bd 1 Sonderabdruck aus Schlechter Lieferung 10 576 - 632 Brieger, Maatsch and Senghas 1977;
Orchid Digest Vol 46 No 3 1982 photo fide;
Growing Orchids Vol 2 Rentoul 1982;
An Illustrated Encyclopedia of Orchids Pridgeon 1982;
AOS Bulletin Vol 52 No 3 1983 photo fide;
AOS Bulletin vol 53 no 7 1984 photo fide;
AOS Bulletin VOl 54 No 11 1985 photo fide;
AOS Bulletin Vol 56 No 4 1987 photo fide;
The Cattleya and their Relatives Withner Vol 1 1988 photo fide;
The Manual of Cultivated Orchids Bechtel, Cribb and Laurent 1992 photo fide;
Orchids Of Brazil McQueen 1993 photo fide;
Manual of Orchids Stewart 1995;
AOS Bulletin Vol 66 No 9 1997 photo fide;
Botanicas Orchids Laurel Glen 2002;
AOS Bulletin Vol 72 No 9 2003 photo fide;
Flora's Orchids Nash & La Croix 2005;
AOS Bulletin Vol 75 No 1 2006 photo/drawing fide;
AOS Bulletin Vol 75 No 9 2006 photo fide;
Miniature Orchids Frownie 2007;
AOS Bulletin Vol 77 #7 2008 photo fide;
AOS Bulletin vol 78 No 9 2009 photo fide;
Mille et Une Mini Orchideees Roguenant 2009 photo fide;
AOS Bulletin Vol 80 #12 2011 photo fide;
Orchidees Du Bresil As Orchideas da Serra Do Castello Vol 3 Chiron & Bolsanello 2013 drawing/photo fide;
Orchid Digest Vol 79 #4 2015 photo not = hybrid;
Orchid Digest Vol 79 #4 2015 as C schilleriana var. coerulea photo fide;
Orchid Digest Vol 80 #2 2016;
AOS Bulletin Vol 85 #5 2016 photo fide;
AOS Bulletin Vol 85 #6 2016 photo fide;
AOS Bulletin Vol 85 #9 2016 drawing fide;
AOS Bulletin Vol 86 #2 2017 photo fide;
AOS Bulletin Vol 86 #6 2017 as C schilleriana f coerula photo fide;
AOS Bulletin Vol 86 # 7 2017 photo fide;
AOS Bulletin Vol 86 # 11 2017 Drawing fide;
AOS Bulletin Vol 88 # 6 2019 photo fide;
AOS Bulletin Vol 88 #7 2019 photo fide;
AOS Bulletin Vol 88 #8 2019 photo fide;
AOS Bulletin Vol #9 2019 photo fide; ;
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