The Orchid Society of Great Britain
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Cattleyas<br />
Cattleya walkeriana w<br />
Gardner, London J. Bot. 2: 662<br />
(1843)<br />
Distribution: Brazil. Six inch (15cm)<br />
pseudobulbs carry one to two<br />
purple flowers with a darker lip. It<br />
grows lithophytically on limestone<br />
boulders on river banks.<br />
Discovered by the collector<br />
Gardner, and named after his<br />
companion Edward Walker.<br />
Cattleya warscewiczii w<br />
Rchb.f., Bonplandia (Hannover) 2:<br />
112 (1854)<br />
Distribution: Colombia. One <strong>of</strong> the<br />
largest flowers at nine inches<br />
(23cm) across, with pale purple<br />
tepals and dark purple lip with a<br />
yellow throat. It was discovered by<br />
the collector Josef Warscewicz in<br />
1848, near Medellin.<br />
246 • OSGBJ 2010 (59), No. 4<br />
Cattleya walkeriana<br />
Cattleya warneri w<br />
T.Moore ex R.Warner, Select<br />
<strong>Orchid</strong>. Pl.: t. 8 (1862)<br />
Distribution: Brazil. A typical<br />
labiate Cattleya, despite coming<br />
from Brazil, with up to five, eight<br />
inch (20cm), purple flowers with a<br />
darker purple lip and orange<br />
throat with purple veining. First<br />
flowered by Robert Warner in<br />
1860.<br />
Cattleya walkeriana, ‘semi alba’ form Cattleya warneri, a ‘semi alba’ form<br />
Cattleya warscewiczii, a concolor<br />
form<br />
Cattleya warscewiczii f. alba
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