Rhyncholaeliocattleya, abbreviated Rlc. in the horticultural trade, is the orchid nothogenus for intergeneric hybrid greges

Grex (horticulture)

The term grex , derived from the Latin noun grex, gregis meaning flock, has been coined to expand botanical nomenclature to describe horticultural hybrids of orchids, based solely on their specified parentage...

 containing at least one ancestor species from each of the two ancestral genera Rhyncholaelia

Rhyncholaelia

Rhyncholaelia, abbreviated Rl. in the horticultural trade, is a genus of orchids , comprising 2 species. They are distributed in Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, and Honduras. Both species were originally published in Brassavola by Lindley. In 1918, Schlechter erected the new genus Rhyncholaelia and...

Schltr. andCattleya

Cattleya

Cattleya is a genus of 113 species of orchids from Costa Rica to tropical South America. The genus was named in 1824 by John Lindley after Sir William Cattley who received and successfully cultivated specimens of Cattleya labiata that were used as packing material in a shipment of other orchids...

Lindl., and from no other genera.

The many greges in this nothogenus are among the most spectacular of cultivated orchids. Many are particularly valued for the large showy labellum

Labellum

Labellum is the Latin diminutive of labium, meaning lip. These are anatomical terms used descriptively in biology, for example in Entomology and botany.-Botany:...

. In publications prior to 2009, many of these were classified in various nothogenera, including Brassocattleya

Brassocattleya

Brassocattleya or Brasso-cattleya, abbreviated Bc. in the horticultural trade, is an intergeneric orchid hybrid including the genera Brassavola and Cattleya....

, Brassolaeliocattleya

Brassolaeliocattleya

Brassolaeliocattleya, abbreviated Blc. in the horticultural trade, is the orchid nothogenus for intergeneric hybrid greges containing at least one ancestor species from each of the three ancestral genera Brassavola R.Br, Cattleya Lindl...

, Brassolaelia, Lowara, Rhynchosophrocattleya, and Potinara

Potinara

Potinara, abbreviated Pot in the horticultural trade, is the nothogenus comprising those intergeneric hybrids of orchids which have Brassavola, Cattleya, Laelia and Sophronitis as parent genera....

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