Cattleya bicalhoi

Cattleya bicalhoi
Cattleya bicalhoi
Flower of Sophronitis dayana
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Monocots
Order: Asparagales
Family: Orchidaceae
Subfamily: Epidendroideae
Tribe: Epidendreae
Subtribe: Laeliinae
Genus: Cattleya
Species: C. bicalhoi
Binomial name
Cattleya bicalhoi
Van den Berg
Synonyms
  • Laelia dayana Rchb.f. (basionym)
  • Laelia pumila var. dayana (Rchb.f.) Burbridge ex Dean
  • Laelia pumila ssp. dayana (Rchb.f.) Bicalho
  • Hadrolaelia dayana (Rchb.f.) Chiron & V.P.Castro
  • Sophronitis dayana (Rchb.f.) Van den Berg & M.W.Chase

Cattleya bicalhoi, commonly known as Laelia dayana, is a species of orchid endemic to Brazil, from southern Minas Gerais to Rio de Janeiro.

Both Kew [1] and the Royal Horticultural Society[2] recognize this taxon as Cattleya bicalhoi Van den Berg Neodiversity 3(4)2008[3]


Footnotes

  1. ^ World checklist of Selected Plant Families The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the Internet: http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/synonomy.do?name_id=374632
  2. ^ The Royal Horticultural Society Horticultural Database: The International Orchid Register http://apps.rhs.org.uk/horticulturaldatabase/orchidregister/orchiddetails.asp?ID=1166
  3. ^ page 4 of C. van den Berg "New Combinations in the Genus Cattleya Lindl. (Ordchidaceae") Neodiversity' 3:3-12 10th Mar 2008, downloaded on March 23, 2011 from http://www.neodiversity.org/articles/neod3102.pdf

External links

External identifiers for Sophronitis dayana
EOL 1130459
NCBI 142391
uBio NameBank 8912507
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