Cattleya × calimaniana Campacci 2007
TYPE Drawing/Photo by © Campacci
Common Name Caliman's Cattleya [Keko and Savio Caliman Brazilian discoverers of the natural hybrid]
Flower Size 5" [12.5 cm]
Found in Espiritu Santo State of Brazil in Atlantic rainforests at elevations around 150 meters as a medium sized, hot growing epiphyte that is a natural hybrid between C harrisoniana and C schofieldiana with a short rhizome giving rise to cane-like pseudobulbs carrying 2, apical, coriaceous, elliptic leaves that blooms in the Brazilian spring on an erect, short to 6" [to 15 cm] long, 3 flowered inflorescence and carries nicely fragrant flowers
Synonyms Cattleya × randiana L.Linden 1889
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
*Bol. CAOB 65: 28 Campacci 2007 drawing/photos fide
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