Cattleya guttata

Cattleya guttata ("the spotted Cattley orchid") is a bifoliate Cattleya species of orchid. The diploid chromosome number of C. guttata has been determined as 2n = 40.[1]

Cattleya guttata
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Order: Asparagales
Family: Orchidaceae
Subfamily: Epidendroideae
Genus: Cattleya
Subgenus: Cattleya subg. Intermediae
Species:
C. guttata
Binomial name
Cattleya guttata
Lindl.
Synonyms
  • Cattleya elatior Lindl.
  • Cattleya sphenophora C. Morren
  • Epidendrum amethystoglossum Rchb.f.
  • Epidendrum elatius (Lindl.) Rchb.f.
  • Cattleya guttata var. pernambucensis Rodigas
  • Cattleya guttata var. compacta Hoehne & Schltr.
  • Cattleya guttata var. elatior (Lindl.) Fowlie
  • Cattleya guttata var. caerulea L.C. Menezes
  • Cattleya leopoldii subsp. pernambucensis Brieger
  • Cattleya guttata f. munda (Rchb.f.) M.Wolff & O.Gruss
  • Cattleya guttata f. albina Xim.Bols.

References
  1. 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


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