| 词条 | Cattleya alaorii |
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| name = Alaor's Cattleya | image = Cattleya alaorii (s-wild) (Brieger & Bicalho) Van den Berg, Neodiversity 3- 4 (2008) (32091365561).jpg | image_caption = Flowers of Cattleya alaorii | regnum = Plantae | unranked_divisio = Angiosperms | unranked_classis = Monocots | ordo = Asparagales | familia = Orchidaceae | subfamilia = Epidendroideae | tribus = Epidendreae | subtribus = Laeliinae | genus = Cattleya | subgenus = C. subg. Crispae | sectio = C. sect. Hadrolaelia | species = C. alaorii | binomial = Cattleya alaorii | binomial_authority = (Brieger & Bicalho) Van den Berg | synonyms =
|}} Cattleya alaorii, commonly known as the Laelia alaorii, is a species of orchid endemic to Brazil (Bahia). The species was named after Mr. Alaor Oliveira, former employee at the University of São Paulo at Piracicaba, who first collected this species in a field excursion in the late 1960s. DistributionIt was discovered in the 1970s in an isolated mountain chain near Itabuna, Bahia state. It grows in the very wet Bahia coastal forests ecoregion of the Atlantic Forest biome (Mata Atlantica Brasileira). It is found in rainforests at about {{convert|600|m|ft}} above sea level. The plants are epiphytes in tall trees up to {{convert|40|m|ft}} high, and grow in the top branches where they get a fair amount of light. Their environment is always foggy and minimum temperatures in winter are never less than {{convert|15|C|F}}. See also
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