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Orchid Species: Amalia perrinii

Kew currently accepted name is Cattleya perrinii

Amalia perrinii is an orchid species identified by (Lindl.) Heynh. in 1846. Culture information and photos for this orchid are commonly detailed under the currently accepted name of Cattleya perrinii.
Genus
Amalia (Amalia.)
Grex
perrinii
Parents
Species
Author
(Lindl.) Heynh.
Year
1846
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ORIGIN: A Brazilian, medium sized, warm to cool growing, epiphytic orchid, with a solitary leaf, found at altitudes of 700 to 900 meters.

DESCRIPTION: With ovoid-ellipsoid to clavate pseudobulbs that are enveloped basally by scarious sheaths and carrying a single, apical, ligulate, leathery, rounded at the apex leaf that blooms in the late summer through the winter with 2 to 6, long-lasting flowers on a to 10 [to 25 cm] long, raceme subtended by a large compressed sheath.

FLOWER SIZE: 5 inches [12.5 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 perrinii 1838 Lindl.
Add+ Brasilaelia Bll perrinii 2006 (Lindl.) Campacci
Add+ Chironiella Chironiella perrinii 2006 (Lindl.) Braem
Add+ Hadrolaelia Hdl perrinii 2002 (Lindl.) Chiron & V.P.Castro
Add+ Laelia L perrinii 1888 </i><i> alba</i> O'Brien
Add+ Sophronitis S perrinii 2000 (Lindl.) Van den Berg & M.W.Chase
Add+ Bletia Bletia perrinii 1862 (Lindl.) Rchb.f. in W.G.Walpers
Most awarded/recent cultivars: L. perrinii 'Lucky Lou' (2 awards in 1977) C. perrinii 'Isabel Rosalia' (2018) C. perrinii 'Vilbella' (2018) C. perrinii 'Laetitia' (2018) C. perrinii 'Thomas' (2017) L. perrinii h.f. coerulea 'Sebastian' (2016) C. perrinii 'Happy Birthday Ron' (2016) C. perrinii 'Royston's Two Tone Toot' (2016) C. perrinii 'Niep' (2015) C. perrinii 'Julio David' (2013) C. perrinii 'Sterling Blue' (2012) C. perrinii 'Laramie' (2012) C. perrinii 'Hans' (2012) C. perrinii h.f. semialba 'Anja' (2011) C. perrinii 'Grauer Gigant' (2011) S. perrinii h.f. coerulea 'Elegance in Motion' (2006) L. perrinii 'Willow-Lea' (2006) L. perrinii 'Big Bugga' (2003) L. perrinii 'Anita' (2001) L. perrinii h.f. coerulea 'Grand Natalie' (1997)
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