Cattleya, Lindley, 1824

Berg, Cássio Van Den, 2014, Reaching a compromise between conflicting nuclear and plastid phylogenetic trees: a new classification for the genus Cattleya (Epidendreae; Epidendroideae; Orchidaceae), Phytotaxa 186 (2), pp. 75-86 : 78

1. Cattleya subgenus Cattleya

1.1. Cattleya section Cattleya . Type species: C. labiata Lindley (1824 : t. 33). Cattleya ser. Monophyllae Barbosa Rodrigues (1882: 156) . Type (designated here): Cattleya labiata Lindley (1824 : t. 33). Cattleya sect. Mossiae ( Pfitzer 1889: 146) . Type (designated here): C. labiata Lindley (1824 : t. 33).

Cattleya subg. Stellatae Withner (1988: 21) . Type species: C. luteola Lindley (1853: 774)

Cattleya sect. Xantheae Withner (1988: 21) . Type species: C. dowiana Bateman (1866: 922) .

The species in this section ( Table 2) are the species complex around C. labiata , and species placed by Withner (1988) in Cattleya subg. Stellatae : Cattleya iricolor Reichenbach (1874: 162) , C. luteola and C. mooreana Withner, Allison & Guenard in Withner (1988: 95). These three species have much smaller flowers with narrow sepals and petals and could be recognized as a separate group, but we feel that it would be a small group and the vegetative morphology of all species in sect. Cattleya is so consistent that this would not be necessary. This is also true for some species with small flowers that were included in Cattleya ser. Cattleyodes .