Cattleya hennisiana Rolfe 1889

Photo by © Chuck McCartney

Another Flower

Photo by © Patricia Harding

Drawing

Drawing by © L O Williams

Common Name Patin's Cattleya [French Orchid Collector 1800's]

Flower Size

Found in Costa Rica, Panama, Antioquia department of Colombia, Venezuela and Trinidad and Tobago in humid forests at elevations of 30 to 800 meters as a caespitose, small sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with fusiform, furrowed, bifoliate pseudobulbs with elliptic to oblong, fleshy leaves which blooms in the fall on a terminal, 3" [7.5 cm] long, erect, few to several [4 to 8] flowered, racemose inflorescence arising on a newly matured pseudobulb, subtended by a basal sheath.

The major difference in this species versus Cattleya skinneri is that skinnerii blooms in the spring and has a white tubular base to the lip.

Synonyms Cattleya patinii Cogn. 1900; Cattleya patinii var. alba Cogn. in C.A.Cogniaux & A.P.G.Goossens 1900; Cattleya skinneri var autumnalis Allen 1942; Cattleya skinneri var. parviflora Lindl. 1856; Cattleya skinneri var patinii 1914; Epidendrum huegelianum var. parviflorum (Lindl.) Rchb.f. 1862; Guarianthe hennisiana (Rolfe) Van den Berg 2015 Guarianthe patinii (Cogn.) Dressler & W.E. Higgins 2003

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

Gard. Chron., ser. 3, 5: 620 Hennisiana 1889 as Cattleya hennisiana

*Dict. Icon. Orchid., Cattleya: t. 25 Cogniaux 1900;

Dict. Icon. Orchid., Cattleya: t. 25A Cogniaux 1900 as C patinii var alba;

Die Orchideen Schlechter 1915 as C skinneri var patini;

Atlas des Orchidees Cultivees Constantin 1920 drawing good;

Repert. Sp. Nov. Regni. Veg. Beih. 17: 48. Panama Schlechter 1922 as C deckeri;

Repert. Sp. Nov. Regni. Veg. Beih. 19: 134. Costa Rica Schlechter 1923 as C deckeri;

Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 29: 345 Allen 1942 as C skinneri var autumnalis;

The Orchids of Panama L.O. Williams & P Allen 1946 as C skinneri var autumnalis drawing fide;

AOS Bulletin Vol 27 No 3 1958 as C deckeri drawing;

AOS Bulletin Vol 27 No 6 1958 as C skinneri var autumnalis

Venezuelan Orchids Illustrated Vol 1 Dunsterville & Garay 1959 drawing fide;

Native Orchids of Trinidad Schultes 1960 as C deckeri;

Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965 as C skinneri var autumnalis;

AOS Bulletin Vol 36 #9 1967 as C skinneri var patinii photo fide;

AOS Bulletin Vol 39 No 5 1970 as C deckeri;

Flora de Venezuela Foldats Volumen XV Part 3 1970 as C skinneri var patinii Drawing fide;

Die Orchideen #10 37-40a tafel 10 Rudolph Schlechter 1971 as C deckeri drawing fide;

Orchid Digest Vol 37 No 4 1973 as C deckeri photo fide;

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

Orchid Digest Vol 42 No 2 1978 photo fide as C deckeri;

Orchids of Venezuela An Illustrated Field Guide Vol 1 Dunsterville & Garay 1979 drawing fide;

Manual of Cultivated Orchids Bechtel, Cribb and Laurent 1982 as C deckeri;

The Cattleya and Their Relatives Withner Vol 1 1988;

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

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

Native Orchids of the Eastern Caribbean Kenny 1988 as C deckeri;

Native Orchids of Colombia Vol 1 COS 1990 as C deckeri photo fide;

Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 1408 Mora & Atwood 1992 drawing fide;

Field Guide to the Orchids of Costa Rica and Panama Dressler 1993;

Field Guide to the Orchids of Costa Rica and Panama Dressler 1993 as C deckeri;

Orchid Digest Vol 59 No 2 1995 as C deckeri photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 59 #2 1995 photo fide;

Manual of Orchids Stewart 1995 as C deckeri;

Orchids of Venezuela [An illustrated field guide] Vol. 1 Ramiro and Carnevali 2000 drawing fide;

Manual De Plantas de Costa Rica Volumen 3 Hammel, Grayum, Herrera and Zamora 2003;

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

Vanishing Beauty; Native Costa Rican Orchids Vol 1 Pupulin 2005 as Guarianthe patinii photo fide;

Libro Rojo de Plantas De Colombia Vol 6 Primera Parte Saenz 2007;

AOS Bulletin Vol 80 #1 2011 as Guariananthe patinii photo fide;

AOS Bulletin Vol 80 #10 2011 photo fide; Orchids, A Colombian Treasure Vol 1 Ortiz & Uribe 2014 photo fide;

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

*Phytotaxa 239: 66 Van der berg 2015 as Guariananthe hennisiana;

AOS Bulletin Vol 85 #11 2016 as Cattleya skinneri var autumnalis photo fide

AOS Bulletin Vol 85 #11 2016 as Cattleya hennisiana photo fide;

AOS Bulletin Vol 86 # 1 2017 photo fide;

Orchid Genera and Species in Guatemala Archila, Szlachchetko, Chiron, Lipinska, Mystkowska and Bertolini 2018 as Guariannthe patinii;

AOS Bulletin Vol 89 #11 2020 as Guariananthe hennisiana fide;

Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol IV:468 Szlatchetko & Kolanowska 2023 drawing/photo fide;

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