Cattleya elongata explained

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).

Notes and 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,
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