Cattleya section Crispae (Pfitzer) Van den Berg, 2014

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 : 78-79

1.2. Cattleya section Crispae (Pfitzer) Van den Berg , comb. nov.

Basionym: Laelia sect. Crispae Pfitzer (1889: 147) . Type (chosen by Withner 1990: 18): Cattleya crispa Lindley (1828c : t. 1172). Laelia subg. Crispae Withner (1990: 18) , nom. inval. (missing basionym reference). Laelia sect. Monophyllae Cogniaux (1901: 273) . Type

(designated here): Cattleya crispa Lindley (1828c : t. 1172).

This section includes all Brazilian species previously assigned to Laelia and the expanded concept of Sophronitis sensu van den Berg & Chase (2000, 2001 ). This group has always been recovered as monophyletic (van den Berg 2009, van den Berg et al. 2000, 2005, 2009), and for this reason I prefer to recognize it at sectional level, and then establish several series for smaller units such as Laelia sect. Cattleyodes Schlechter (1917a: 88) , sect. Hadrolaelia Schlechter (1917a: 88) , and sect. Microlaelia Schlechter (1917a: 89), as well as sect. Parviflorae Lindley (1842a t. 62) while keeping the same component species.