Cattleya nobilior
Cattleya nobilior is a compact, rhizanthoid Cattleya from the seasonally dry interior of central Brazil and eastern Bolivia. Its large, fragrant lilac flowers come from a short stalk on the rhizome rather than from the top of the pseudobulb. In the wild it grows on trees and limestone in deciduous forest and cerrado that bake through a long dry winter, so it needs very bright light, strong air movement and a real dry rest.
Where it grows wild
An epiphyte of seasonal deciduous and semideciduous forest, cerradão and cerrado, and sometimes a lithophyte on limestone outcrops. Specimen labels note it on trees such as Myracrodruon urundeuva and over limestone. The trees lose much of their foliage in the dry season, leaving the plants in strong light.
Herbarium specimens with altitudes range from about 240 to 790 m, on the plateaus and limestone hills of Mato Grosso, Mato Grosso do Sul and Goiás.
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