Cattleya maxima var coerulea

Cattleya maxima var coerulea is found in Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador and northern coastal Peru at elevations of 10 to 1500 meters in seasonally dry, coastal forests A medium sized, cool to warm growing, unifoliate, epiphyte and occasional lithophyte from with clavate, lightly complante, sulcate pseudobulbs subtended by several, imbricating, nonfoliaceous sheaths and a single, apical, oblong or narrowly elliptic-oblong, clasping, obtuse, minutely bilobed, thickly coriaceous leaf and blooms in the fall through the winter on a terminal, to 30 cm long, erect or arching, few to several flowered, racemose inflorescence arising on a mature pseudobulb subtended with a large, basal, elongate sheath from which arise 3 to 15, long-lived, fragrant helioptrope to sweet pea scented, somewhat heavy textured flowers that are held just at or above leaf height.