Cattleya angereri (Pabst) Van den Berg

 Cattleya angereri (Pabst) Van den Berg, Neodiversity 3(1): 4 (2008).

Cattleya angereri (Pabst) Van den Berg, Photos by Rafael Santos

its native range is Brazil (Minas Gerais).

Latinh Name: 

Cattleya angereri (Pabst) Van den Berg

Synonym:

Hoffmannseggella angereri (Pabst) V.P.Castro & Chiron

Laelia angereri Pabst

Sophronitis angereri (Pabst) Van den Berg & M.W.Chase

English Name:

Angerer's Laelia (Brazilian Orchid Collector 20th cen)

Description: 

With an erect, 20 to 25 cm long, racemose inflorescence with up to 10 flowers occuring in the winter and early spring in cultivation. This species has a short rhizome giving rise to elongate, cylindrical, slightly thickened basally pseudobulbs carrying a single, apical, lanceolate leaf.

Distribution:

Brazil Southeast.

Ecological:

As a medium to large sized, cool growing lithophyte under bushes at 1000-1300 m.

Flowering times:

Blooms in the winter and early spring.

Flower size:

4.0 cm.

Cultivation:

They have hot summers and cool winter nights which are typically dry, but there is daily dew in the winter so light misting through the winter is required. Pot with a rocky base media such as solite or aliflor and add a little crushed tree fern, then grow in a cool environment with indirect bright light and you will be rewarded.

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