Description: English: Pseudobulb epiphyte or lithophyte Distribution: Brazil to NE. Argentina (84 BZC BZE BZL BZS 85 AGE PAR) Homotypic Synonyms: Sophronia cernua Lindl., Bot. Reg. 13: t. 1129 (1828). Sophronitis cernua (Lindl.) Lindl., Bot. Mag. 65: t. 3677 (1838). (* Basionym/Replaced Synonym) Heterotypic Synonyms: Sophronia modesta Lindl., Bot. Reg. 14: t. 1147 (1828), sphalm. Epidendrum humile Vell., Fl. Flumin. 9: t. 24 (1831), nom. illeg. Sophronitis hoffmannseggii Rchb.f. ex Hoffmanns., Verz. Orchid.: 27 (1842). Sophronitis nutans Hoffmanns., Verz. Orchid.: 28 (1842). Sophronitis isopetala Hoffmanns., Verz. Orchid., ed. 2: 60 (1843). Sophronitis pterocarpa Lindl. & Paxton, Paxton's Fl. Gard. 3: 11 (1853). Cattleya pterocarpa Beer, Prakt. Stud. Orchid.: 209 (1854), pro syn. Sophronia pterocarpa (Lindl. & Paxton) Kuntze, Revis. Gen. Pl. 2: 681 (1891). Sophronitis cernua var. albiflora Cogn., Bull. Soc. Roy. Bot. Belgique 43: 325 (1907). Sophronitis cernua var. endsfeldzii Pabst, Revista Brasil. Orquideas 2(7): ? (1971). Sophronitis cernua var. alagoensis Gomes Ferreira, Orquidário 12: 15 (1998). Date: 24 November 2018, 23:49. Source:
[Rio de Janeiro, Brazil] Cattleya cernua (Lindl.) Van den Berg, Neodiversity 5: 13 (2010). Author:
sunoochi from Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan.