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Orchid Species: Cattleya marcaliana
(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)
Cattleya marcaliana is an orchid species identified by (Campacci & Chiron) Van den Berg in 2008.
ORIGIN: Found in southeastern Bahia Brazil in the humid Atlantic rainforests at elevations of 200 to 300 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Small sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with a single, coriaceous, lanceolate, dorsal side red leaf that blooms in the summer on a terminal, erect, short, 4 to 6, simultaneously flowered inflorescence
This is a new combination that has now been published and is legal by new regs with the International Nomenclature Committee. This species does not fit well in any of the previous combinations listed above starting with the basionym Dungsia marcaliana Campacci & Chiron, Richardiana 2: 77 (2002,
Similar to Laelia harpophylla but differs in Laelia marcaliana having slightly longer pseudobulbs, wider leaves, 4 to 6 flowers sepals that are wider than 6mm, a lip that is narrow all along and has an acute apex as well as comparatively long, lateral lobes of the lip that overlap the midlobe.
FLOWER SIZE: 2.26 inches [5.6 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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