<p>SUBGENUS <i>Cattleya</i> SECTION <i>Maximae</i> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r369756387">.mw-parser-output .smallcaps{font-variant:small-caps}</style><span class="smallcaps">Withner</span> (1988)<br>
Distribution: Colombia to Peru (82 VEN 83 CLM ECU PER)<br>
Lifeform: Pseudobulb epiphyte
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<ul><li><b>Homotypic synonyms</b>
<ul><li><i>Epidendrum maximum</i> (<link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r369756387"><span class="smallcaps">Lindl.</span>) <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r369756387"><span class="smallcaps">Rchb.f.</span> in W.G.Walpers, Ann. Bot. Syst. 6: 316 (1861)</li></ul></li>
<li><b>Heterotypic synonyms</b>
<ul><li><i>Cattleya maxima</i> var. <i>aphlebia</i> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r369756387"><span class="smallcaps">Rchb.f.</span>, Gard. Chron., n.s., 22: 394 (1884)</li>
<li><i>Cattleya malouana</i> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r369756387"><span class="smallcaps">Linden</span>, Lindenia 1: 90 (1885)</li>
<li><i>Cattleya maxima</i> var. <i>backhousii</i> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r369756387"><span class="smallcaps">Rchb.f.</span>, Gard. Chron., n.s., 24: 142 (1885)</li>
<li><i>Cattleya maxima</i> var. <i>hrubyana</i> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r369756387"><span class="smallcaps">L.Linden</span> &amp; <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r369756387"><span class="smallcaps">Rodigas</span>, Lindenia 1: 29 (1885)</li>
<li><i>Cattleya maxima</i> var. <i>marchettiana</i> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r369756387"><span class="smallcaps">B.S.Williams</span>, Orchid Album 9: t. 404 (1891)</li>
<li><i>Cattleya maxima</i> f. <i>aphlebia</i> (<link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r369756387"><span class="smallcaps">Rchb.f.</span>) <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r369756387"><span class="smallcaps">Roeth</span>, Die Orchidee (Hamburg) 61: 45 (2010)</li>
<li><i>Cattleya maxima</i> f.<i> alba</i> (<link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r369756387"><span class="smallcaps">A.H.Kent</span>) <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r369756387"><span class="smallcaps">L.Becker</span>, Die Orchidee (Hamburg) 65: 229 (2014)</li></ul></li></ul>
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