Cattleya bowringiana O'Brien 1885 SUBGENUS Circumvola SECTION Moradae Withner 1989

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Rose-Purple colored flowers

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Cattleya bowringiana Veitch var coerula

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TYPE Drawing

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Common Name Bowring's Cattleya [English Amatuer Orchid Enthusiast 1800's]

Flower Size 3" [7.5 cm]

Found in Belize and Guatemala on rocky cliffs near fast moving streams in a humid atmosphere at elevations of 210 to 900 meters as a medium to large sized, hot to warm growing lithophyte with club-shaped pseudobulbs carrying 2, rarely 3, apical, narrowly oblong, leathery, dark green leaves and blooms in the fall on a terminal, erect or nodding, long-stalked, to 10" [to 25 cm] long, few to many flowered inflorescence arising through 2, basal, compressed spathes carrying up to 15 flowers that are not long lasting.

It requires a short winter rest from water and fertilizer after the completion of flowering.

Synonyms Cattleya autumnalis O'Brien 1888; Cattleya skinneri Bateman var. bowringiana (O'Brien) Kraenzl. 1892; Guarianthe bowringiana (O'Brien) Dressler & W.E. Higgins 2003

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Gard. Chron., n.s., 24: 683 O'Brien 1885

Orchid Album 7: t. 323 O'Brien 1888

Orchid Album 7: t. 323 O'Brien 1888 as Cattleya autumnalis nom. illeg.;

Orchid Album 7: t. 323 O'Brien 1888 drawing fide;

Xenia Orchidaceae Vol 3 3: 82 Reichenbach 1900 as C skinneri var bowringiana

Xenia Orchidaceae Vol 3 3: 82 Reichenbach 1900 as C skinneri var bowringiana drawing fide;

Die Orchideen Schlechter 1915;

Atlas des Orchidees Cultivees Constantin 1920 drawing good;

Orchids of Malaya Holttum 1957;

Orchids of Guatemala and Belize Ames & Correll 1952;

AOS Bulletin Vol 28 No 6 1959;

AOS Bulletin Vol 29 No 2 1960;

The Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965;

AOS Bulletin Vol 36 No 6 1967 photo fide;

: AOS Bulletin Vol 36 #7 1967 photo fide;

AOS Bulletin Vol 36 #9 1967;

AOS Bulletin Vol 39 No 5 1970 as Cattleya bowringiana Veitch var coerula

Die Orchideen 3 Auflage Bd 1 Sonderabdruck aus Schlechter Lieferung 10 576 - 632 Brieger, Maatsch and Senghas 1977 photo/drawing fide;

Orquideologia Vol 15 #1 Luer & Escobar 1981;

Orchid Digest Vol 45 No 5 1981 as Cattleya bowringiana Veitch var coerula photo fide;

Orchid Digest Vol 45 No 5 1981 photo fide;

Growing Orchids Vol 2 Rentoul 1982;

AOS Bulletin vol 53 no 7 1984 photo fide;

AOS Bulletin vol 53 no 10 1984 photo fide;

AOS Bulletin Vol 54 No 5 1985 as Cattleya bowringiana Veitch var coerula photo fide;

AOS Bulletin Vol 54 No 10 1985 photo fide;

AOS Bulletin Vol 54 No 10 1985 as C bowringia var albescens photo fide;

Catttleya and Their Relatives Withner Vol 1 1988 photo fide;

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

Manual of Orchids Stewart 1995;

Orchid Digest Vol 60 #1 1996 as Cattleya bowringiana Veitch var coerula photo fide;

Guatemala Y Sus Orquideas Behar & Tinschert 1998 photo fide;

AOS Bulletin Vol 71 No 9 2002 photo fide;

Orchid Digest Vol 66 #2 2002 photo fide;

Botanica's Orchids Laurel Glen 2002;

Lankesteriana 7: 38 Dressler & W E Higgins 2003 as Guariananthe bowringiana;

AOS Bulletin Vol 73 No 12 2004 photo fide;

Flora's Orchids Nash & La Croix 2005;

The World's Most Beautiful Orchids Allikas & Nash 2005 photo fide;

AOS Bulletin Vol 75 No 9 2006 photo fide;

AOS Bulletin Vol 75 No 10 2006 photo fide;

AOS Bulletin Vol 76 #10 2007 photo fide;

AOS Bulletin Vol 81 #10 2012 photo fide

Guia de Orquideas de Chiapas Carlos Rommel Beutelspacher Baigts 2013 as Guarianthe bowringia photo good;

Algunas Orquideas de Mexico Tomo 1 Suarez 2013 as Guariananthe bowringianaa photo fide;

AOS Bulletin Vol 84 #3 2015 as Guariananthe bowringia photo fide;

Orchid Genera and Species in Guatemala Archila, Szlachchetko, Chiron, Lipinska, Mystkowska and Bertolini 2018 as Guariananthe bowringina photo fide;

Orchid Genera and Species in Guatemala Archila, Szlachchetko, Chiron, Lipinska, Mystkowska and Bertolini 2018 as Guariananthe bowringiana f maculata;

AOS Bulletin Vol 89 #11 2020 as Guariananthe bowringia photo fide; ;

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