Cattleya bicolor
A tall, cane-stemmed, two-leaved Cattleya from south-eastern and central Brazil, with waxy green-to-bronze flowers and a narrow magenta lip that has no side lobes. It grows on trees in the seasonal forests of the Atlantic Forest and Cerrado, which have a warm, wet summer and a cooler, distinctly dry winter. Wild conditions are not well documented and there are no usable GBIF records to measure, so treat these targets as informed estimates.
Where it grows wild
An epiphyte, occasionally found on rocks, in semi-deciduous and gallery forests. Brazil's official flora lists it from Minas Gerais, São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, EspÃrito Santo, Goiás and the Distrito Federal, spanning Atlantic Forest and Cerrado. Its tall, reed-like pseudobulbs and thick leaves suit fairly bright positions on trunks and larger branches.
No elevation data were measured. Its range lies mostly on the Brazilian plateau, where much of the forest is at roughly 500–1,200 m, which gives cooler winter nights than the coast.
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