not yet in bloom
| Cattleya percivaliana |
| taxonomy | described by | (Reichenbach f.) O' Brien, James |
| published in | The Gardner's Chronicle & Agricultural Gazette 20 : 404 1883 | |
| family | Orchidaceae | |
| subfamily | Epidendroideae | |
| tribe | Epidendreae | |
| subtribe | Laeliinae | |
| genus | Cattleya Lindley 1821, monofoliate | |
| 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 | origins | forests, next watercourses, endemic in Venezuela (Carabobo, Merìda, Miranda, Yaracuy), |
| Colombia (Cauca) | ||
| altitude | 1300 - 2000 m (4290 - 6600 ft) | |
| habitat | climate informations from Popayan (Cauca, Colombia) | |
| Köppen climate classification : Cfb, humid subtropical climate in all seasons, with hot summers | ||
| the weather station data (temperatures are calculated for an altitude of 1650 m / 5445 ft) : | ||
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| photoperiod | in Popayan this orchid bloom with a photoperiod, that varies during the year, from 12 h 09 m' to 11 h 51 m' | |
| life form | litophyte | |
| brigthness | full sun | |
| inflorescence | length | |
| nr fiori | ||
| size | ||
| duration | ||
| time | to bloom from birth, ≈ days | |
| CITES | appendix | II |
