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Orchid Species: Dungsia marcaliana

Kew currently accepted name is Cattleya marcaliana

Dungsia marcaliana is an orchid species identified by Campacci & Chiron in 2002. Culture information and photos for this orchid are commonly detailed under the currently accepted name of Cattleya marcaliana.
Genus
Dungsia (Dng.)
Grex
marcaliana
Parents
Species
Author
Campacci & Chiron
Year
2002
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).
Other Names
Genus Name Genus Grex Name Year Author
Add+ Cattleya C marcaliana 2008 (Campacci & Chiron) Van den Berg
Add+ Laelia L marcaliana 2012 (Campacci & Chiron) Pfahl
Add+ Sophronitis S marcaliana 2004 (Campacci & Chiron) Van den Berg & M.W.Chase
Most awarded/recent cultivars: C. marcaliana 'Waldems' (2011)
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