a tropical American orchid with brightly coloured showy flowers and thick leaves, typically growing as an epiphyte. They are popular greenhouse plants, with many hybrids 卡特兰,卡特丽亚兰
Genus Cattleya, family Orchidaceae 卡特兰属,兰科
语源
early 19th cent.: modern Latin, named after William Cattley (died 1832), English patron of botany