| Cattleya elongata | |
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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 | |
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Cattleya alexandrae L.Linden & Rolfe
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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]
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).
References
- ↑ 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
- ↑ 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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