Cattleya intermedia

Cattleya intermedia, the intermediate cattleya, is a bifoliate Cattleya species of orchid. The diploid chromosome number of C. intermedia has been determined as 2n = 40.[1]

Cattleya intermedia
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Order: Asparagales
Family: Orchidaceae
Subfamily: Epidendroideae
Genus: Cattleya
Subgenus: Cattleya subg. Intermediae
Species:
C. intermedia
Binomial name
Cattleya intermedia
Graham ex Hook.
Synonyms
  • Cattleya maritima Lindl.
  • Cattleya ovata Lindl.
  • Cattleya amethystina C.Morren
  • Cattleya loddigesii var. amethystina C. Morren ex Lem.
  • Cattleya lindleyana Rchb.f.
  • Cattleya amabilis Lindl. ex Buyss.
  • Cattleya gibeziae Linden & Rodigas
  • Cattleya aquinii Barb.Rodr.
  • Cattleya intermedia var. punctatissima Sander
  • Cattleya intermedia var. amethystina (C.Morren ex Lem.) Fowlie

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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