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Orchid Species: Cattleya laelioides

Kew currently accepted name is Guarianthe skinneri

Cattleya laelioides is an orchid species identified by Lem. in 1852. Culture information and photos for this orchid are commonly detailed under the currently accepted name of Guarianthe skinneri.

Genus

Cattleya (C.)

Grex

laelioides

Parents

Species

Author

Lem.

Year

1852

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ORIGIN: From Chiapas state of Mexico to Costa Rica as a medium sized, bifoliate epiphyte where it is found in humid forests on tree trunks and branches or terrestrial-lithophyte on granite cliff banks at altitudes of 200 to 2300 meters.

DESCRIPTION: Medium sized, bifoliate epiphyte with fusiform to clavate pseudobulbs carrying 2, apical, oblong to elliptic, obtuse to acute leaves that blooms in the winter through spring and occasionally in the fall on a terminal, to 5 1/2 [13.75 cm] long, usually erect, few to many [4 to 15] flowered inflorescence arising on a mature pseudobulb and subtended by a large green, spathiform basal sheath and carries slightly fragrant flowers that often open not all at once.

FLOWER SIZE: 3 1/2 inches [8.75 cm] -- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).

Other Names

	Genus Name	Genus	Grex Name	Year	Author
Add+	Guarianthe	Gur	skinneri	2003	(Bateman) Dressler & W.E.Higgins
Add+	Cattleya	C	deckeri	1855	Klotzsch
Add+	Cattleya	C	pachecoi	1943	Ames & Correll
Add+	Epidendrum	Epi	huegelianum	1861	Rchb.f. in W.G.Walpers
Add+	Guarianthe	Gur	skinneri f. rosea
Add+	Guarianthe	Gur	skinneri f. semialba
Add+	Cattleya	C	skinneri	1839	Bateman

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