Cattleya tigrinaA.Rich.

WFO wfo-0000823778 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 5 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 5 times, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Cattleya tigrina, photographed by Lucas Kaminski
fig. a Lucas Kaminski, CC BY 4.0 / 2020-01-02 / obs. 59609676
Cattleya tigrina, photographed by Kahio Tiberio Mazon
fig. b Kahio Tiberio Mazon, CC0 1.0 / obs. 28934025
Cattleya tigrina, photographed by Lucas Kaminski
fig. c Lucas Kaminski, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 171201741
Cattleya tigrina, photographed by Lucas Kaminski
fig. d Lucas Kaminski, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 171201681
Cattleya tigrina, photographed by Lucas Kaminski
fig. e Lucas Kaminski, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 108385488
Cattleya tigrina, photographed by Lucas Kaminski
fig. f Lucas Kaminski, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 108385458
Cattleya tigrina, photographed by Lucas Kaminski
fig. g Lucas Kaminski, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 108385474
Cattleya tigrina, photographed by Lucas Kaminski
fig. h Lucas Kaminski, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 171201648

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Native range 3 botanical countries

Regions where Cattleya tigrina is native: Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast Brazil NortheastBrazil SouthBrazil Southeast
Native distribution of Cattleya tigrina, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Brazil Northeast BZE SOUTHERN AMERICA
Brazil South BZS
Brazil Southeast BZL

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Also published as 25 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Cattleya guttata subvar. immaculata Rchb.f.
  • Cattleya guttata var. leopardina L.Linden & Rodigas
  • Cattleya guttata var. leopoldii (Verschaff. ex Lem.) Linden & Rchb.f.
  • Cattleya guttata var. purpurea Cogn.
  • Cattleya guttata var. williamsiana Rchb.f.
  • Cattleya leopoldii Verschaff. ex Lem.
  • Cattleya leopoldii f. alba (Fowlie) F.Barros & J.A.N.Bat.
  • Cattleya leopoldii f. alba (Fowlie) M.Wolff & O.Gruss
  • Cattleya leopoldii f. caerulea (L.C.Menezes) F.Barros & J.A.N.Bat.
  • Cattleya leopoldii f. caerulea (L.C.Menezes) M.Wolff & O.Gruss
  • Cattleya leopoldii f. immaculata (Rchb.f.) M.Wolff & O.Gruss
  • Cattleya leopoldii var. alba Fowlie
  • Cattleya leopoldii var. immaculata (Rchb.f.) Fowlie
  • Cattleya leopoldii var. leopardina (L.Linden & Rodigas) Fowlie
  • Cattleya leopoldii var. purpurea Cogn.
  • Cattleya leopoldii var. williamsiana (Rchb.f.) Fowlie
  • Cattleya tigrina f. alba (Fowlie) K.A.Roberts
  • Cattleya tigrina f. pelorica K.A.Roberts
  • Cattleya tigrina var. caerulea L.C.Menezes
  • Cattleya tigrina var. immaculata (Rchb.f.) Braem
  • Cattleya tigrina var. leopardina (L.Linden & Rodigas) Braem
  • Cattleya tigrina var. purpurea (Cogn.) Braem
  • Cattleya tigrina var. williamsiana (Rchb.f.) Braem
  • Epidendrum elatius var. leopoldii (Verschaff. ex Lem.) Rchb.f.

and 1 more.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.