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Cattleya aclandiae Lindl.

Orchidaceae · Brazil Northeast · listed by its genus as an orchid

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Cattleya aclandiae, photograph Orchi, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia CommonsCattleya aclandiae, photograph Orchi, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia CommonsCattleya aclandiae, photograph Arne and Bent Larsen, Haarby, Denmark, CC BY-SA 2.5 dk, via Wikimedia CommonsCattleya aclandiae, photograph Arne and Bent Larsen, Haarby, Denmark, CC BY-SA 2.5 dk, via Wikimedia CommonsCattleya aclandiae, photograph Orchi, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia CommonsCattleya aclandiae, photograph snotch from Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons 13 photographs ›

Summary

Cattleya aclandiae, or Lady Ackland's cattleya, is a species of orchid from the genus Cattleya, named in honor of Lady Lydia Elizabeth Ackland, wife of Sir Thomas Dyke Acland, 10th Baronet who was the first European to grow the plant successfully. The illustration of the plant which accompanied its first description was based on a drawing by Lady Ackland. The genus was named in honour of William Cattley, a prominent British merchant and horticulturist.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Cattleya aclandiae", CC BY-SA 4.0.

About the genus · Cattleya

Cattleya is a genus of orchids from Costa Rica south to Argentina. The genus is abbreviated C in trade journals.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Cattleya", CC BY-SA 4.0.

Cultivation

Grouped as an orchid, listed under the genus Cattleya in the archetype table, and Kew describes it as “pseudobulbous epiphyte”.

Nothing derived: no habitat climate for this species.
How this section is made

Each card states this species' habitat figures with their sources, and what two fixed rules read from them; nothing here says what the plant does, wants or tolerates. The rules · the terms.

Group. Listed under the genus Cattleya in the archetype table, and Kew describes it as “pseudobulbous epiphyte”. A group is taken only where Kew's description of the species agrees with the table's listing. The table gives no figure and no prose; the cold floor is the habitat's alone.

Climate across the habitat

No habitat climate can be derived: Only 1 distinct land cell of the climate grid holds an in-range record placed to within 10 km; three are needed for an envelope. 13 of the 14 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or to no stated accuracy and fewer than three decimals or by something other than a person's observation, and cannot place a climate cell, though they count for the map and its marker.

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP; the marker is where the records are densest and decides nothing.
Openly licensed records inside the range, framed on where they fall.
NativeBrazil Northeast · regions are the level-3 units of the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, as Kew's World Checklist records ranges, some under historical names such as Yugoslavia or Czechoslovakia (how).
Map marker-12.272, -39.061 · in the densest population, 13 records (93% of those in range)
Doubtfully present inBrazil North · recorded by WCVP as doubtfully present: not part of the range records are tested against
Kew's description“pseudobulbous epiphyte” · “seasonally dry tropical” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 14 georeferenced records inside the native range; the map shows only the 13 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker 12 km away. 3 records outside the WCVP native range not used. No climate across the range is derived for this species. 13 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or with no stated accuracy (admitted only as a person's observation to three decimals), and stay on the map but off the climate.
How this section is made
The map marker: the openly licensed record nearest the middle of the densest 1° population of the 14 in-range records; it decides nothing. Records outside the native range, living specimens and records marked introduced are not used; which records count.

Photographs

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Photographs: Orchi, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (3); Arne and Bent Larsen, Haarby, Denmark, CC BY-SA 2.5 dk, via Wikimedia Commons (2); snotch from Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Other Cattleya 68 in the reference

Cattleya acuensis Cattleya acuensis Orchidaceae Photo: CC BY, André AmbrozioCattleya alaorii Cattleya alaorii Orchidaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, OrchiCattleya amethystoglossa Cattleya amethystoglossa Orchidaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, Dalton Holland BaptistaCattleya angereri Cattleya angereri Orchidaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, OrchiCattleya bicolor Cattleya bicolor Orchidaceae Photo: Public domain, author not statedCattleya bradei Cattleya bradei Orchidaceae Photo: CC BY, Pedro Quinellato Dantas Cattleya briegeri Orchidaceae Cattleya caulescens Cattleya caulescens Orchidaceae Photo: CC BY, agujaceratopsCattleya cernua Cattleya cernua Orchidaceae Photo: CC BY, Pablo Cauã da Silva ToledoCattleya cinnabarina Cattleya cinnabarina Orchidaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, Michael WolfCattleya coccinea Cattleya coccinea Orchidaceae Photo: CC BY, Alexandre MagnoCattleya crispa Cattleya crispa Orchidaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, Cavdberg all 69 ›

Names & registers

Also known as Cattleya acklandiae; Cattleya aclandiae f. alba; Cattleya aclandiae var. alba; Cattleya aclandiae var. grandiflora; Cattleya aclandiae var. salmonea and 2 more. (GBIF Backbone)

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The record

Family
Orchidaceae
Described by
Lindl.
Native to
Brazil Northeast
Wild records
14 in range · 13 open

Every figure here is derived from public data by a stated rule and names its source; nothing about this species is written for its page by a person or by AI, apart from the marked, credited quotations. How →

Where this page came from built 2026-10-21
GBIF species record gbif.species answeredasked 2026-10-21
GBIF synonyms gbif.synonyms answeredasked 2026-10-21
GBIF common names gbif.vernacular answeredasked 2026-10-21names fetched 2026-10-21
WCVP native range wcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04
GBIF occurrence records gbif.occurrences answeredas of 2026-10-21GBIF occurrence download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.hbdw64, of 2026-10-21; 2 records within 1 km of a botanic garden, herbarium or zoo left out (2 at a botanic garden or arboretum; Wikidata's list)
Habitat climate climate nothing to reportasked 2026-10-21only 1 distinct land cell of the climate grid holds an in-range record placed to within 10 km; three are needed for an envelope
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-21
Wikipedia wikipedia answeredasked 2026-10-21
iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.photos.wild nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22from iNaturalist's open data of 2026-09-27: research-grade observations with an open-licence photograph, the 24 whose photographs iNaturalist received last (the open data holds no votes); filled 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, cultivated inat.photos.cultivated not asked
GBIF media gbif.media answeredasked 2026-10-21
Wikimedia Commons commons answeredasked 2026-10-21
OpenAlex papers openalex not askednot yet asked for this reference; a later fill takes the papers from OpenAlex's snapshot

Every source is recorded as having answered, reported nothing, refused, failed, not been asked, or answered twice where one answer is taken (“not taken: two items answered”), and, for a source asked when this page was built, when: the figures are as the source held them that day; a source read from a file (Kew's World Checklist, a GBIF download) says "as of" the file's day instead; a row carried from an earlier build of the page names that build instead. Only “nothing to report” is ever shown as an absence. Records came from 9 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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