not yet in bloom
| Cattleya guttata, subvar. immaculata |
| taxonomy | described by | Lindley, John |
| published in | Edwards's Botanical Register 17 : t . 1406 1832 | |
| subvar. immaculata | described by | Reichenbach, Heinrich Gustav |
| published in | The Gardners' Chronicle & Agricultural Gazette n.s. , 26 : 326 1886 | |
| family | Orchidaceae | |
| subfamily | Epidendroideae | |
| tribe | Epidendreae | |
| subtribe | Laeliinae | |
| genus | Cattleya Lindley 1821, bifoliate | |
| metabolism | CAM pathway, stomata of the leaves are open at night. | |
| (K.Silvera, L.S. Santiago, J.C. Cushman, K. Winter - International Symposium on Plant Biology, August 2013) | ||
| it is useful give the soluble mineal nutriens, on the roots. | ||
| native of | origin | forests, overhanging waterways, in Brazil (Paranà, Espiritu Santo, Minas Gerais, Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, Bahia) |
| altitude | 160 - 600 m (528 - 1980 ft) | |
| habitat | climate informations from Aracatuba (São Paulo, Brazil) | |
| Köppen climate classification : Aw, tropical savanna climate (with a dry season and a rainy season) | ||
| the weather station data (temperatures are calculated for an altitude of 400 m / 1320 ft) : | ||
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| photoperiod | in Aracatuba this orchid bloom with a photoperiod, that varies during the year, from 13 h 24 m' to 10 h 36 m' | |
| life form | epiphyte or litophyte | |
| brightness | sunny to full sun | |
| inflorescence | length | |
| nr flowers | ||
| size | ||
| duration | ||
| time | to bloom from birth, ≈ days | |
| CITES | appendix | II |
