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Orchid Species: Sophronitis bahiensis

Kew currently accepted name is Cattleya luetzelburgii

Sophronitis bahiensis is an orchid species identified by (Schltr.) Van den Berg & M.W.Chase in 2000. Culture information and photos for this orchid are commonly detailed under the currently accepted name of Cattleya luetzelburgii.
Genus
Sophronitis (S.)
Grex
bahiensis
Parents
Species
Author
(Schltr.) Van den Berg & M.W.Chase
Year
2000
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ORIGIN: Found in northeastern Brazil in the state of Bahia in the Chapada da Diamantina at elevations around 1100 to 1700 meters.

DESCRIPTION: Small sized, cool to cold growing lithophyte from the side of rocks in full sun with cylindrical to fusiform pseudobulbs carrying a single, apical erect, coriaceous, linear-elliptic, acute, basally conduplicate leaf that blooms in the late winter and early spring on a terminal, 12 to 28 [30 to 70 cm] long, racemose, few to several [10] flowered inflorescence with the successive, well-spaced flowers opening over several weeks.

FLOWER SIZE: 1.6 inches [4 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 luetzelburgii 2008 Van den Berg
Add+ Hoffmannseggella Hof bahiensis 1974 (Schltr.) H.G.Jones
Add+ Laelia L bahiensis 1921 Schltr.
Most awarded/recent cultivars: L. bahiensis 'KG's Bahia Gold' (2004) L. bahiensis 'Josh' (1984)
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