Cattleya × elegans

Vernacular names [edit wikidata 'Cattleya ×elegans']

No common name has yet been provided in this gallery nor in wikidata 'Cattleya ×elegans'

APG IV Classification: Domain: Eukaryota • (unranked): Archaeplastida • Regnum: Plantae • Cladus: Angiosperms • Cladus: monocots • Ordo: Asparagales • Familia: Orchidaceae • Subfamilia: Epidendroideae • Tribus: Epidendreae • Subtribus: Laeliinae • Genus: Cattleya • Nothospecies: Cattleya × elegans C.Morren (1848)

Formula hybridae: Cattleya purpurata (Lindl. & Paxton) Van den Berg (2008) × Cattleya tigrina A.Rich. (1848)

Synonyms

Homotypic synonyms Laelia × elegans (C.Morren) Rchb.f., Allg. Gartenzeitung 13: 242 (1855) Bletia × elegans (C.Morren) Rchb.f. in W.G.Walpers, Ann. Bot. Syst. 6: 427 (1862) × Laeliocattleya elegans (C.Morren) Rolfe, Gard. Chron. 1889(1): 619 (1889) × Sophrocattleya elegans (C.Morren) Van den Berg & M.W.Chase, Lindleyana 16: 111 (2001) × Hadrocattleya elegans (C.Morren) V.P.Castro & Chiron, Richardiana 2: 26 (2002) × Brasicattleya elegans (C.Morren) Campacci, Colet. Orquídeas Brasil. 4(Pré-anexo): 103 (2006) Heterotypic synonyms Laelia × brysiana Lem., Ill. Hort. 3: 48 (1856) Laelia × elegans var. houtteana Rchb.f., Hamburger Garten- Blumenzeitung 16: 281 (1860) Bletia × elegans var. houtteana (Rchb.f.) Rchb.f., Xenia Orchid. 2: 55 (1862) Laelia × gigantea R.Warner, Select Orchid. Pl. 1: t. 6 (1862) Laelia × turneri R.Warner, Select Orchid. Pl. 1: t. 12 (1862) Cattleya × devonia auct., Proc. Roy. Hort. Soc. London 3: 372 (1863) Laelia × devoniensis Rchb.f., Gard. Chron., n.s., 8: 424 (1877) Laelia × elegans var. alba Barb.Rodr., Gen. Spec. Orchid. 1: 66 (1877) Cattleya × devoniensis (Rchb.f.) T.Moore, Fl. Mag. (London) 1881: t. 437 (1881) Laelia × elegans var. picta Rchb.f., Gard. Chron., n.s., 21: 140 (1884) Laelia × elegans var. gigantea (R.Warner) A.H.Kent in H.J.Veitch, Man. Orchid. Pl. 2: 67 1887) Laelia × elegans var. incantans Rchb.f., Gard. Chron., III, 2: 333 (1887) Laelia × elegans var. schilleriana A.H.Kent in H.J.Veitch, Man. Orchid. Pl. 2: 67 (1887) Laelia × elegans var. turneri (R.Warner) A.H.Kent in H.J.Veitch, Man. Orchid. Pl. 2: 67 1887) Laelia × elegans var. morreniana Rchb.f., Orchid Album 7: t. 331 (1888) Laelia × elegans var. tautziana Rchb.f., Gard. Chron., III, 3: 330 (1888) Laelia × pachystele Rchb.f., Gard. Chron. 1888(2): 596 (1888) × Laeliocattleya pachystele (Rchb.f.) Rchb.f., Gard. Chron. 1888(2): 596 (1888) Laelia × elegans var. blenheimensis B.S.Williams, Orchid Album 9: t. 393 (1891) × Laeliocattleya elegans var. leucotata L.Linden, Lindenia 9: 61 (1893) × Laeliocattleya sayana Linden, J. Orchidées 5: 220 (1894) × Laeliocattleya schulziana Linden, Lindenia 11: 21 (1895) × Hadrocattleya elegans f. leucotata (L.Linden) F.Barros & J.A.N.Bat., Orquidologia Sul-mer.: 102 (2004)

Botanical illustrations

• 
  Cattleya × elegans
  (as syn.
  Laelia × elegans var. alba)
  aquarell in:
  Collection d'orchidées,
  (1850-1870)
• 
  Cattleya × elegans
  (as syn.
  Laelia × elegans)
  aquarell in:
  Collection d'orchidées,
  (1850-1870)
• 
  Cattleya × elegans
  plate 4700 in:
  Curtis's Bot. Magazine
  (Orchidaceae),
  vol. 79,
  (1853)
• 
  Cattleya × elegans
  (as syn.
  Laelia × brysiana)
  plate 134 in:
  Charles Antoine Lemaire:
  L'Illustration horticole
  (Orchidaceae),
  vol. 4,
  (1857)
• 
  Cattleya × elegans
  plate 23 in:
  Jean Jules Linden:
  Pescatorea
  Bruxelles (1860)
• 
  Cattleya × elegans
  plate 156 in:
  James Bateman:
  A Second Century of
  Orchidaceous Plants
  London (1867)
• 
  Cattleya × elegans
  (as syn.
  Laelia × elegans)
  plate 21 in:
  Émile de Puydt:
  Les orchidées
  (1880)
• 
  Cattleya × elegans
  (as syn.
  Laelia × elegans
  var. alba)
  Plate 30 in:
  R.Warner - B.S.Williams:
  The Orchid Album
  (1882-1897)
• 
  Cattleya × elegans
  (as syn.
  Laelia × elegans)
  Plate 285 in:
  R.Warner - B.S.Williams:
  The Orchid Album
  (1882-1897)
• 
  Cattleya × elegans
  (as syn.
  Laelia × elegans
  var. morreniana)
  Plate 331 in:
  R.Warner - B.S.Williams:
  The Orchid Album
  (1882-1897)
• 
  Cattleya × elegans
  (as syn.
  Laelia × elegans
  var. blenheimensis)
  Plate 393 in:
  R.Warner - B.S.Williams:
  The Orchid Album
  (1882-1897)
• 
  Cattleya × elegans
  (as syn.
  Laelia × elegans)
  Plate 413 in:
  R.Warner - B.S.Williams:
  The Orchid Album
  (1882-1897)
• 
  Cattleya × elegans
  (as syn.
  × Laeliocattleya sayana)
  plate 463 in:
  Jean Jules Linden
  L. Linden & E. Rodigas:
  Lindenia
  (1885-1906)
• 
  Cattleya × elegans
  (as syn.
  Laelia elegans
  var. schilleriana)
  plate 52 in:
  Frederick Sander:
  Reichenbachia II,
  (1890)
• 
  Cattleya × elegans
  (as syn.
  Laelia × elegans
  var. blenheimensis)
  plate 20 in:
  Frederick Sander:
  Reichenbachia I
  second series
  (1892)

Native distribution areas
Reference: Brummitt, R.K. (2001) TDGW - World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, 2nd Edition Continental: Southern America Regional: Brazil Brazil South, Brazil Southeast.

References

Description of taxon

• Morren, C.F.A. (1848) Annales de la Societe Royale d'Agriculture et de Botanique de Gand: Journal d'Horticulture et des Sciences Accessoires 4: 93.

Selected Bibliography

• Pridgeon, A.M., Cribb, P.J., Chase, M.W. & Rasmussen, F.N. (eds.) (2006) Genera Orchidacearum Volume 4 Epidendroideae (Part one); page 213 ff., Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0198507127
  

Selected Weblinks

Wikispecies has an entry on: Cattleya × elegans.

• Kew Gardens 'World Checklist' link : Cattleya × elegans
• eMonocot link: Cattleya × elegans
• Tropicos link: Cattleya × elegans
• International Plant Names Index link: Cattleya × elegans
• The Plant List link: Cattleya × elegans