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Cattleya xanthina (Lindl.) Van den Berg

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

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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: 24 in-range records, none placed to within 10 km. 24 of the 24 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, Brazil Southeast · 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-20.313, -40.655 · in the densest population, 23 records (96% of those in range)
Kew's description“pseudobulbous epiphyte” · “wet tropical” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 24 georeferenced records inside the native range; the map shows only the 22 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker 20 km away. No climate across the range is derived for this species. 24 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.
Other GBIF keysRecords also from GBIF's key 11329875 (Cattleya xanthina (Lindl.) VanDenBerg): Kew's file holds it as Cattleya xanthina (Lindl.) Van den Berg (accepted); 0 records, from GBIF's search API on the day of the build.
How this section is made
The map marker: the openly licensed record nearest the middle of the densest 1° population of the 24 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); snotch from Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (3).

Other Cattleya 68 in the reference

Cattleya aclandiae Cattleya aclandiae Orchidaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, lesueur carolineCattleya 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 Magno all 69 ›

Names & registers

Also known as Bletia flabellata; Bletia xanthina; Brasilaelia xanthina; Chironiella xanthina; Hadrolaelia xanthina and 2 more. (GBIF Backbone)

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The record

Family
Orchidaceae
Described by
(Lindl.) Van den Berg
Native to
Brazil Northeast, Brazil Southeast
Wild records
24 in range · 22 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 answeredasked 2026-10-21GBIF occurrence download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.hbdw64, of 2026-10-21; 0 records of GBIF's key 11329875, Cattleya xanthina (Lindl.) VanDenBerg (Kew's file holds it as Cattleya xanthina (Lindl.) Van den Berg (accepted)): GBIF occurrence search API; 1 record within 1 km of a botanic garden, herbarium or zoo left out (1 at a botanic garden or arboretum; Wikidata's list)
Habitat climate climate nothing to reportasked 2026-10-2124 in-range records, none placed to within 10 km
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-21
Wikipedia wikipedia nothing to reportasked 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 nothing to reportasked 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 5 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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