Cattleya x guatemalensis Moore 1861 SUBGENUS Circumvola SECTION Moradae Withner 1989

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Specimen plant

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Flower Closeup

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Color Varieties of the flowers

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Cattleya guatemalensis Moore 1861 var alba

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Drawing

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Common Name The Guatemalan Cattleya

Flower Size 2"

Found in Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua in low montane forests highup in large trees in full sun at low altitudes as a naturally occuring hybrid of the species C. auriantiaca and C. skinneri and is a large sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with clavate, rugose pseudobulbs enveloped by scarious, evanescent sheaths and carrying 2 apical, elliptic, acute leaves and blooms in the late winter and early spring on a terminal, 5.5" [13.75 cm] long, several to many [5 to 10] flowered inflorescence arising on a mature pseudobulb.

Synonyms Cattleya × deckeri Klotzsch 1855; Cattleya × guatemalensis var. wischhuseniana Rchb.f. 1888; Cattleya pachecoi Ames and Correl 1943; Cattleya skinneri Batem. var parviflora Hook. 1856; Guarianthe × deckeri (Klotzsch) Roeth 2006; Guarianthe × guatemalensis ( T.Moore ) W.E.Higgins 2004; Guarianthe × guatemalensis var. pachecoi (Ames & Correll) J.M.H.Shaw 2007; Guarianthe × laelioides (Lem.) Van den Berg 2015; Guarianthe × laelioides f. pachecoi (Ames & Correll) Van den Berg 2015; Guarianthe × laelioides var. deckeri (Klotzsch) J.M.H.Shaw 2017

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

Jard. Fleur. 3(Misc.): 42 Lem. 1853 as Cattleya laelioides

Bot. Mag. 82: t. 4916 Lindley 1856 as C skineri var parviflora

*Fl. Mag. (London) 1: t. 61 T S Moore 1861

Xenia Orchid. 2: 29 Rchb.f 1862 as Epidendrum huegelianum var. parviflorum

Gard. Chron., ser. 3, 4: 378 Rchb.f. 1888 as C guatemalensis var wischhuseniana

Gard. Chron., ser. 3, 5: 491 Rolfe 1889 as × Epicattleya guatemalensis

Amer. Orchid Soc. Bull. 11: 401 Ames & Correll 1943 as Cattleya × pachecoi

Orchids Of Guatemala and Belize Ames & Correll 1985 as C deckeri;

AOS Bulletin Vol 29 #5 1960 photo fide;

AOS Bulletin Vol 30 No 9 1961;

AOS Bulletin Vol 32 No 5 1963 photo fide;

Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965;

AOS Bulletin Vol 36 #7 1967 photo fide;

AOS Bulletin Vol 36 #9 1967 as C pachecoi;

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

Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 631 Hamer 1982 drawing fide;

Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 632 Hamer 1982 as C pachecoi drawing fide;

Growing Orchids Vol 2 Rentoul 1982;

Selbyana Vol 10 Orchids of Central America Hamer 1988 as C deckeri drawing fide;

Selbyana Vol 10 Orchids of Central America Hamer 1988 drawing fide;

Selbyana Vol 10 Orchids of Central America Hamer 1988 as C pachecoi drawing fide;

AOS Bulletin Vol 67 #2 1998 photo fide;

AOS Bulletin Vol 67 #2 1998 as C guatemalensis var alba photo fide;

The Catttleya and Their Relatives Withner Vol 1 1988 photo fide;

Guatemala Y Sus Orquideas Behar & Tinschert 1998 photo fide;

Orchid Digest Vol 63 #2 1999 photo fide;

Orchid Digest 68: 39 W E Higgins 2004 as Guarinanthe x guatemalensis;

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;

Orchid Rev. 115 (1277, Suppl.): 24 J M Shaw 2007 as Guarianthe × guatemalensis var. pachecoi;

Phytotaxa 239: 67 2015 as Guariananthe x laelioides;

Phytotaxa 239: 67 2015 as Guarianthe × laelioides f. pachecoi;

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

AOS Bulletin Vol 85 #5 2016 as Guariannthe guatemalensis photo fide;

Orchid Rev. 124(1313, Suppl.): 18 2016 as Guarianthe × laelioides var. pachecoi;

Orchid Rev. 125(1319, Suppl.): 58 J M H Shaw 2017 as Guariananthe x Laelioides var deckeri;

Orchid Genera and Species in Guatemala Archila, Szlachchetko, Chiron, Lipinska, Mystkowska and Bertolini 2018 as Guariananthe x guatemalensis

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