Cattleya guttata

Vernacular names [edit wikidata 'Cattleya guttata']

• English: Spotted Cattleya

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 • Species: Cattleya guttata Lindl. (1831)

Synonyms

Heterotypic synonyms Cattleya elatior Lindl., Gen. Sp. Orchid. Pl.: 117 (1833) Cattleya sphenophora C.Morren, Ann. Soc. Roy. Agric. Gand 4: 17 (1848) Epidendrum amethystoglossum Rchb.f. in W.G.Walpers, Ann. Bot. Syst. 6: 319 (1861) Epidendrum elatius (Lindl.) Rchb.f. in W.G.Walpers, Ann. Bot. Syst. 6: 319 (1861) Cattleya guttata var. pernambucensis Rodigas, Ill. Hort. 40: 91 (1893) Cattleya guttata var. munda Rchb.f., Gard. Chron., III, 4: 378 (1898) Cattleya guttata var. elatior (Lindl.) Fowlie, Braz. Bifol. Cattleyas: 105 (1977) Cattleya leopoldii subsp. pernambucensis (Rodigas) Brieger in ? Cattleya guttata var. caerulea L.C.Menezes, Bol. CAOB 5(1): 22 (1993) Cattleya guttata f. munda (Rchb.f.) M.Wolff & O.Gruss, Orchid. Atlas: 59 (2007) Cattleya guttata f. albina Xim.Bols., Richardiana 12: 3 (2011)

Images of the whole plant

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Inflorescences

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  habitat - Brazil
  Rio de Janeiro (state)
  Arraial do Cabo
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Flowers

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  flower - Brazil
  Rio de Janeiro (state)
  Arraial do Cabo
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  Labellum

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  forma albina

Botanical illustrations

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  Cattleya guttata
  Drawing by
  Prof. Franz Gruber
  19th century

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  Cattleya guttata
  plate 3693 in:
  Curtis's Bot. Magazine
  (Orchidaceae),
  vol. 65,
  (1839)
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  Cattleya guttata
  plate 44 in:
  John Gould:
  A Monograph of the Trochilidae
  vol. 2,
  (1849-1861)
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  Cattleya guttata
  (as syn.
  Epidendrum elatius)
  plate 172; fig.I in:
  H. G. Reichenbach:
  Xenia orchidacea - vol. 2
  (1874)

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

References

Description of taxon

• Lindley, J. (1832) Edwards's Botanical Register 17: t. 1406.

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 guttata.

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