Cattleya

Finding

SITF confirms this plant as Cattleya munchowiana (Mar 2025). This flower matches many of the photos of Cattleya munchowiana on Orchidroots. There is an excellent photo of this species flower and of the plant and flower that is almost identical to this plant. It matches the description of "cylindrical shaped, reddish pseudobulbs carrying a single, reddish tinged leaf ... on a terminal, erect becoming arcuate, much longer than the leaf, few to several flowered inflorescence holding the flowers towards the apex".

Number Of Leaves Per Growth Or Cane: 1

Leaf Length: 9 cm

Leaf Width: 3 cm

Leaf Margin: entire

Leaf Shape: elliptical

Pseudobulb Length: 9 cm

Pseudobulb Width: 1 cm dia

Pseudobulb Distance: minimal

Inflorescence Overall Length: to 56 cm

Floral Bracts Width: N/A

Ovary Length: 4.3 cm

Ovary Width: 1 mm dia

Ovary Shape: long, thin

Ovary Color: olive

Ovary Texture: glabrous

Flower Natural Spread Length: 2.9

Flower Natural Spread Width: 3.1

Dorsal Sepal Length: 1.7

Dorsal Sepal Width: 0.4

Lateral Sepals Length: 1.3

Lateral Sepals Width: 0.4

Petals Width: 0.3

Judging Center: Atlanta Judging Center

Award Number: 20252059

Award Date: February 08, 2025

Awarded As: CBR

Twenty-six flowers and 23 buds presented apically on four arcuate unstaked inflorescences, to 56 cm; plant 21 cm tall by 24 cm wide in 11 cm clay pot, grown in sphagnum moss; leaves elliptical, to 9 cm long by 3 cm wide; pseudobulb to 9 cm long by 1 cm diameter; sepals and petals lanceolate, distally recurved, base color light pink, distally suffused lavender; lip tubular, light pink, dark pink picotee, side lobes striped darker pink, enclose column, throat ivory; awarded for novelty and rarity in cultivation; country of origin southeast Brazil; award provisional, submitted to SITF 2/8/2025.

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