Cattleya elongata

Cattleya elongata, the "cattleya with the elongated stalk", is an orchid species in the genus Cattleya endemic to the campo rupestre vegetation in northeastern Brazil.[1]

Cattleya elongata
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Order: Asparagales
Family: Orchidaceae
Subfamily: Epidendroideae
Genus: Cattleya
Subgenus: Cattleya subg. Intermediae
Species:
C. elongata
Binomial name
Cattleya elongata
Synonyms

Cattleya alexandrae L.Linden & Rolfe
Cattleya nilsonii Regel
Cattleya alexandrae var. elegans Rolfe
Cattleya alexandrae var. tenebrosa Rolfe
Cattleya alexandrae var. maculata auct.
Cattleya alexandrae var. rosea auct.
Cattleya elongata var. elegans (Rolfe) Fowlie
Cattleya elongata var. tenebrosa (Rolfe) Fowlie
Cattleya elongata var. maculata (auct.) Braem
Cattleya elongata var. rosea (auct.) Braem
Cattleya elongata f. alba F.Barros & J.A.N.Bat.

Its ploidy is 2n = 80.[2]

Cattleya elongata forms two natural hybrids :

  • Cattleya × tenuata (= C. elongata × C. tenuis) (Brazil) .
  • Cattleya × undulata ( = C. elongata × C. schilleriana) (Brazil).

See also

References
  1. Genetic and morphological variability in Cattleya elongata Barb. Rodr. (Orchidaceae), endemic to the campo rupestre vegetation in northeastern Brazil. Daiane Trabuco da Cruz, Alessandra Selbach-Schnadelbach, Sabrina Mota Lambert, Patrícia Luz Ribeiro and Eduardo Leite Borba, Plant Systematics and Evolution, Volume 294, Numbers 1-2 (2011), pages 87-98, doi:10.1007/s00606-011-0444-0
  2. page 250 of L. P. Felix and M. Guerra: "Variation in chromosome number and the basic number of subfamily Epidendroideae (Orchidaceae)" Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 163(2010)234—278. The Linnean Society of London. Downloaded October 2010 from http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1095-8339.2010.01059.x/abstract

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