Cattleya purpurata spike. The flowers are long-lasting and fragrant. "Cattleya × elegans" is a hybrid orchid with a formula hybridae "Cattleya purpurata" (Lindl. & Paxton) Van den Berg (2008) × "Cattleya tigrina" A.Rich. (1848). It is found in South and South-East Brazil. Cattleya purpurata Cattleya purpurata, known in the past as Laelia purpurata and Sophronitis purpurata, is native to Brazil where it is very popular among orchid growers. It is an epiphyte that is found in the canopy of tall trees near coastal areas, in the Brazilian states of Rio Grande do Sul, Santa Catarina and São Paulo. The orchid favors bright
Species Plantarum of the thousands of plant species known to Linnaeus at the time. In the first edition, there were 5,940 names, from "Acalypha australis" to "Zygophyllum spinosum". In his introduction, Linnaeus estimated that there were fewer than 10,000 plant species in existence; there are now thought to be around 400,000 species of flowering plants alone. The species were arranged in around a thousand genera, which were grouped into 24 classes, according to Linnaeus' sexual system of classification. There are no descriptions of the genera in '; these are supplied in the companion volume ' ("the genera of plants"), the fifth edition