Cattleya harpophylla

Description

A medium sized, Brazilian epiphyte at elevations of 500 to 900 meters in shady humid habitats and has a clustered, very thin, terete pseudobulb carrying a solitary, sickle or sword shaped leaf and an erect, terminal, 6" [15 cm] long, several flowered, clustered at the top, racemose inflorescence subtended by a small sheath that is shorter than the leaves occuring in the fall in Brazil and late winter and spring in northern climes and growing cool but not cold, little to no dormancy and less light and more water than other rupicolous Laelia. This species is easily separated by it's epiphytic habit, it's elongate, slender stems and it's short inflorescence that hardly equals the leaf in length as well as bloomning in the late winter and spring.