Cattleya rex Cattleya rex Cattleya rex is a species of epiphytic orchid of showy white flowers, native to montane forests in Peru and Bolivia. Epiphytic herb with cylindric or spindle-shaped pseudobulbs, up to 35 cm. high, with one leaf at the top. Leaf oblong or elliptic-oblong, obtuse, light green, up to 35 cm. long and up to 6 cm. wide, coriaceous. Inflorescence up to 20.3 cm. high, with 3 to 6 (or 10) flowers. Flowers large and showy, up to 17 cm wide, with sepals and petals being cream-colored or ivory white, except the lip or labellum, which is colored with yellow,
Portia labiata specimens. The following table shows the hunting performance of adult females. In addition to "P. labiata", the table shows for comparison the hunting performances of "P. africana", "P. schultzi" and three regional variants of "P. fimbriata". A female "P. labiata" often hangs a capture web from pliant stems and leaves of shrubs and lower branches of trees, rather than from rocks and tree trunks. Males of "Portia" do not build capture webs. A female "P. labiata" more often pursues small jumping spiders and web spiders than larger prey. While it more often catches small jumping spiders than larger ones, it