Cattleya violacea

Vernacular names [edit wikidata 'Cattleya violacea']

English: Violet Cattleya
مصرى: كاتليا فيولاسيا
русский: Каттлея фиолетовая
中文: 堇花卡特兰

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 violacea (Kunth) Rolfe (1889)

Synonyms

Basionym
- Cymbidium violaceum Kunth in F.W.H.von Humboldt, A.J.A.Bonpland & C.S.Kunth, Nov. Gen. Sp. 1: 341 (1816)
Homotypic synonyms
- Epidendrum violaceum (Kunth) Rchb.f. in W.G.Walpers, Ann. Bot. Syst. 6: 318. (1861)
Heterotypic synonyms
- Cattleya schomburgkii Lodd. ex Lindl., Sert. Orchid.: t. 22 (1838)
- Cattleya superba M.R.Schomb. ex Lindl., Ann. Nat. Hist. 1: 479 (1838)
- Cattleya odoratissima P.N.Don, Florist's J. 1840: 185 (1840)
- Epidendrum superbum (M.R.Schomb. ex Lindl.) Rchb.f., Xenia Orchid. 2: 32 (1862)
- Cattleya superba var. splendens Lem., Ill. Hort. 16: t. 605 (1869)
- Cattleya superba var. alba Rolfe, Gard. Chron., III, 8: 620 (1890)
- Cattleya superba var. wellsiana auct., Gard. Mag. (London) 1894: 217 (1894)
- Cattleya superba var. ashworthii auct., Orchid Rev. 3: 217 (1895)
- Cattleya violacea var. huebneri Schltr., Beih. Bot. Centralbl. 42(2): 108 (1925)
- Cattleya violacea var. alba (Rolfe) Fowlie, Braz. Bifol. Cattleyas: 51 (1977)
- Cattleya violacea var. splendens (Lem.) Fowlie, Braz. Bifol. Cattleyas: 51 (1977)
- Cattleya violacea var. ashworthii (auct.) Braem, Cattleya Brazilian Bifoliate Cattleyas: 87 (1984)
- Cattleya violacea var. wellsiana (auct.) Braem, Cattleya Brazilian Bifoliate Cattleyas: 87 (1984)
- Cattleya violacea f. alba (Rolfe) Christenson, Lindleyana 11: 14 (1996)

Cattleya violacea
Cattleya violacea
Cattleya violacea
Cattleya violacea
Cattleya violacea
Cattleya violacea
Labellum
Cattleya violacea
Labellum
Cattleya violacea
Labellum

Cattleya violacea
Cattleya violacea
Cattleya violacea
Cattleya violacea

forma alba 'Yagiri'
forma coerulea 'Hiro-Oishi'
forma semi-alba striata
forma suavissima 'Coronet'
tipo

Botanical illustrations

Cattleya violacea
(as syn.
Cattleya superba)
plate 4083 in:
Curtis's Bot. Magazine
(Orchidaceae),
vol. 70,
(1844)
Cattleya violacea
(as syn.
Cattleya superba)
plate 24 in:
Robert Warner:
Select Orchidaceous Plants - I. Series
(1862-1865)
Cattleya violacea
(as syn.
Cattleya superba
var. splendens)
Plate 33 in:
R.Warner - B.S.Williams:
The Orchid Album
(1882-1897)
Cattleya violacea
(as syn.
Cattleya superba
var. splendens)
plate 32 in:
Frederick Sander:
Reichenbachia I,
(1888)
Cattleya violacea
plate 57 in:
Alfred Cogniaux:
Flora Brasiliensis
vol. 3 pt. 5
(1898-1902)

Native distribution areas
Reference: Brummitt, R.K. (2001) TDGW - World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, 2^nd Edition Continental: Southern America Regional: Brazil Brazil North, Brazil West-Central. Regional: Northern South America French Guiana, Guyana, Venezuela. Regional: Western South America Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru.

References

Description of taxon

(Kunth) Lindl. (1842) Gardeners' Chronicle. 1842: 472.

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 violacea.

Cattleya violacea

Botanical illustrations

References

Navigation menu

Search