Biology:Cattleya percivaliana

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Short description: Species of orchid

Cattleya percivaliana
Cattleya percevaliana.jpg
Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Order: Asparagales
Family: Orchidaceae
Subfamily: Epidendroideae
Genus: Cattleya
Subgenus: Cattleya subg. Cattleya
Section: Cattleya sect. Cattleya
Species:
C. percivaliana
Binomial name
Cattleya percivaliana
(Rchb.f.) O'Brien
Synonyms
  • Cattleya labiata var. percivaliana Rchb.f.

Cattleya percivaliana (literally Percival's Cattley's) is a species of orchid. It shares the common name of "Christmas Orchid" with C. trianae and Angraecum sesquipedale.[1] The diploid chromosome number of C. percivaliana has been determined as 2n = 40. The haploid chromosome number has been determined as n = 20.[2]

References

  1. "The Christmas star orchid". Archived from the original on 2011-07-28. https://web.archive.org/web/20110728011844/http://orchidlady.com/pages/orchidGarden/ChristmasPartTwo.html. Retrieved 2010-07-04. 
  2. page 251 of L. P. Felix and M. 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. Downloaded October 2010 from http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1095-8339.2010.01059.x/abstract

External links

Wikidata ☰ Q5054148 entry