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Cattleya labiata, also known as the crimson cattleya or ruby-lipped cattleya, is the type species of Cattleya, discovered in 1818 in Brazil. This plant grows in the northeastern area of Brazil, in the states of Pernambuco and Alagoas. They grow to different sizes depending on the area from which they originate.
Cattley obtained a specimen of then unnamed Cattleya labiata from William Swainson who had discovered the new plant in Pernambuco, Brazil, in 1817. The plant successfully bloomed under the care of Cattley and it became the type specimen from which Lindley described C. labiata .
List of plants of Atlantic Forest vegetation of Brazil. ... Cattleya alaorii; Cattleya amethystoglossa; Cattleya coccinea; Cattleya labiata; Cattleya sanguiloba;
Arrangement of the parts of an orchid flower: petals (P), sepals (S), labellum (L) Cattleya labiata flower, a plant native to Brazil Illustration of the pollination of Angraecum sesquipedale by a hypothetical moth with long proboscis.
In 1818 Cattley was unpacking a shipment that he had received from Brazil. Among the various materials he found un-preposessing tendrils which might be an orchid, so he nurtured it back to health and it turned out to be the beautiful orchid, which John Lindley named in Cattley's honour as Cattleya labiata (the "corsage orchid").
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