- Cattleya dormaniana
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Dorman's Cattleya Scientific classification Kingdom: Plantae (unranked): Angiosperms (unranked): Monocots Order: Asparagales Family: Orchidaceae Subfamily: Epidendroideae Tribe: Epidendreae Subtribe: Laeliinae Alliance: Cattleya Genus: Cattleya Subgenus: Binomial name Cattleya dormaniana
(Rchb.f.) Rchb.f. (1882)Synonyms - Laelia dormaniana Rchb.f. (1878) (Basionym)
- × Laeliocattleya dormaniana (Rchb.f.) Rolfe (1889)
- Cattleya dormaniana var. alba L.C. Menezes (1991)
- Cattleya dormaniana f. alba (L.C. Menezes) Christenson (1996)
Cattleya dormaniana ("Dorman's Cattleya") is a bifoliate Cattleya species of orchid. The diploid chromosome number of C. dormaniana has been determined as 2n = 40.[1]
Footnotes
- ^ page 250. Leonardo P. Felix and Marcelo Guerra: "Variation in chromosome number and the basic number of subfamily Epidendroideae (Orchidaceae)" Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 163(2010)234-278, The Linnean Society of London
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