Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Cattleya maxima
flor de navidad, christmas flower,the greatest cattleya, Corsage Orchid
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Magnoliophyta
Class
Liliopsida (= Monocotyledoneae)
Order
Asparagales
Family
Orchidaceae
Genus
Cattleya
Species
maxima
Taxon category: Accepted
Syn.: Cattleya malouana L. Linden & Rodigas. Order changed from Orchidales to Asparagales (updated by: J.Villalba 2022).
Origin: Introduced - established
Year of first record: 1999
Mode of introduction: Intentional
Introduction Pathway: Intentional
Subpathway: Agriculture/Horticulture
Introduced status: Human dependent
Invasive status: Unlikely to become invasive
Map of specimen collection localities or observation records for this species in our collections database.
- Tropicos.org. (2017) Database of Missouri Botanical Garden. Tropicos.org. Missouri Botanical Garden. 06 Oct 2017 <http://www.tropicos.org
- Brako, L. Zarucchi,J.L. (1993) Catalogue of the Flowering Plants and Gymnosperms of Peru. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 45: i–xl, 1–1286.
- Dodson, C.H. Dodson, P.M. (1980) Orchids of Ecuador. Icon. Pl. Trop. 1: 1–100.
- Schweinfurth, C. (1960) Orchidaceae, Orchids of Peru. Fieldiana, Bot. 30(3): 533–786.
- Guézou, A. Trueman, M., Buddenhagen, E., Chamorro, S., Guerrero, A.M., Pozo, P., Atkinson, R. (2010) An extensive Alien Plan Inventory from the Inhabited Areas of Galapagos Plos One/ www.plosone.org. Volume 5/ Issue 4/e10276
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"Galapagos Species Database, Cattleya maxima", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=2021. Accessed 8 May 2025.