Cattleya schofieldiana Rchb.f 1882 SUBGENUS Falcata SECTION Granulosae [Fowlie]Withner 1989
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Common Name Schofield's Cattleya [English Orchid Enthusiast 1800's]
Flower Size 6" [15 cm]
Found in Espirito Santo and Rio de Janiero states of Brazil at altitudes up to 900 meters on trees with moss and lichen in hills near the coast as a warm to cool growing, epiphytic orchid with a stout, upright, 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.
The floral similarities to Cattleya granulosa Lindl. 1842 are the same in all aspects other than flower size and color as well as the pseudobulb size which in this species are larger.
Synonyms Cattleya granulosa f. schofieldiana (Rchb.f.) A.D.Hawkes 1965 ; Cattleya granulosa var. banneri Rolfe 1896; *Cattleya granulosa Lindley var schofieldiana [Rchb.f] Veitch 1887; Cattleya princeps auct. 1892; Cattleya schofieldiana var. banneri (Rolfe) Fowlie 1977; Cattleya schofieldiana var. tedescoana L.C.Menezes 2009
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Gard. Chron., n.s., 18: 808 Rchb.f 1882;
Man. Orchid. Pl. 2: 36 A H Kent 1887 as C granulosa var schofieldiana;
Gard. Chron., ser. 3, 11: 816 Mast. 1892 as C princeps nom. illeg.
Orchid Rev. 4: 244 Rolfe 1896 as C granulosa var banneri;
Die Orchideen Schlechter 1915 as C granulosa var buyssoniana;
AOS Bulletin Vol 16 No 2 1957 drawing;
AOS Bulletin Vol 31 No 1 1962 as C granulosa var schoenfieldiana photo fide;
Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids 97 Hawkes 1965 as C granulosa fma. schofieldiana;
Orchid Digest Vol 38 no 6 1974 photo fide;
Orchidaceae Brasilienses Band I Pabst & Dungs 1975 as C granulosa var schofieldiana drawing fide;
Die Orchideen 3 Auflage Bd 1 Sonderabdruck aus Schlechter Lieferung 10 576 - 632 Brieger, Maatsch and Senghas 1977 photo fide;
The Brazilian Bifoliate Cattleyas and Their Color Variations 78 Fowlie 1977;
The Brazilian Bifoliate Cattleyas and Their Color Variations 78 Fowlie 1977 as C schofieldiana car banneri;
AOS Bulletin Vol 50 No 11 1981 photo fide;
AOS Bulletin Vol 54 No 11 1985 photo fide;
AOS Bulletin Vol 55 No 3 1986 photo fide;
The Cattleya and their Relatives Withner Vol 1 1988 photo fide;
Manual of Cultivated Orchids Bechtel, Cribb and Laurent 1992 photo fide;
Orchids of Brazil McQueen 1993 photo fide;
Manual of Orchids Stewart 1995;
Orquideas do Estado do Espirito Santo Ruschi 1997 drawing fide;
Bol. CAOB 75: 40 L C Menezes 2009 as C schofieldiana car tedescoana;
Orchidees Du Bresil As Orchideas da Serra Do Castello Vol 3 Chiron & Bolsanello 2013 drawing/photo fide;
AOS Bulletin Vol 85 #5 2016 photo fide;
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