Cattleya trianae

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Cattleya trianae, photographed by GERMAN LEONEL SARMIENTO CRUZ — fig. b GERMAN LEONEL SARMIENTO CRUZ, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 47433788

Cattleya trianae, photographed by Oscar Marín — fig. c Oscar Marín, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 29378503

Cattleya trianae, photographed by Obed Palagot Echavarria — fig. e Obed Palagot Echavarria, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 178193619

Cattleya trianae, photographed by desertnaturalist — fig. f desertnaturalist, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 71670402

Cattleya trianae, photographed by julianazuluaga-carrero — fig. g julianazuluaga-carrero, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 149412902

Cattleya trianae, photographed by Skjold Søndergaard — fig. h Skjold Søndergaard, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 46849344

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The specimen a real sheet, in a real collection

Herbarium: The New York Botanical Garden
Accession: 03840432
Filed as: Cattleya trianae Linden & Rchb.f.
Det. by: not recorded on this sheet
Collected: F. C. Lehmann
Origin: CO
The sheet: View the digitised specimen (CC BY 4.0)

A real pressed plant, in a real collection, under the accession number above. Not an illustration of one. The holding institution does not serve this sheet’s image to third parties, so there is no photograph here. The record is real and the link goes to it. Where we hold no openly licensed sheet for a species this section is simply absent, and where a sheet never recorded who determined it, that field stays empty rather than being filled in. Roughly half of all herbarium sheets never recorded a determiner, which is ordinary.

Native range 1 botanical country

Native distribution of Cattleya trianae, 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.

Region	TDWG code	Continent
Colombia	CLM	SOUTHERN AMERICA

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.

Where it actually grows measured, from 195 observations

Condition	5th percentile	Median	95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low	7.7 °C	14.7 °C	20.3 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high	17.6 °C	23.6 °C	29.8 °C
Annual rainfall	1,353 mm	1,984 mm	3,273 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter	137 mm	248 mm	532 mm

It is barely found anywhere that freezes. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 195 research-grade observations of Cattleya trianae that carry a coordinate, and this is the range those places actually span. The 5th and 95th percentiles are used rather than the minimum and maximum, because a single cultivated specimen in a heated conservatory should not widen a tropical plant's range to the Arctic.

This is not a hardiness zone. A USDA zone is the average annual extreme minimum temperature. The figure above is the mean daily minimum of the coldest month, which is a different quantity and is typically far warmer. Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one.

Also published as 28 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 bogotensis Linden
Cattleya kimballiana L.Linden & Rodigas
Cattleya labiata subsp. massangeana Rchb.f.
Cattleya labiata var. ernestii Sander
Cattleya labiata var. trianae (Linden & Rchb.f.) Regel
Cattleya trianae Linden & Rchb.f.
Cattleya trianae f. alba (L.Linden & Rodigas) M.Wolff & O.Gruss
Cattleya trianae f. crawshayana De B.Crawshay
Cattleya trianae var. alba L.Linden & Rodigas
Cattleya trianae var. backhausiana Anon.
Cattleya trianae var. colemannii B.S.Williams
Cattleya trianae var. corningii B.S.Williams
Cattleya trianae var. dodgsonii B.S.Williams
Cattleya trianae var. formosa B.S.Williams
Cattleya trianae var. hillii B.S.Williams
Cattleya trianae var. marginata B.S.Williams
Cattleya trianae var. mariae Cogn. & A.Gooss.
Cattleya trianae var. massangeana (Rchb.f.) B.S.Williams
Cattleya trianae var. osmannii B.S.Williams
Cattleya trianae var. quadricolor B.S.Williams
Cattleya trianae var. rosea B.S.Williams
Cattleya trianae var. russelliana B.S.Williams
Cattleya trianae var. splendidissima B.S.Williams & T.Moore
Cattleya trianae var. vanneriana Rchb.f.

and 4 more.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
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.