Cattleya tigrina

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

Cattleya tigrina
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Order: Asparagales
Family: Orchidaceae
Subfamily: Epidendroideae
Genus: Cattleya
Subgenus: Cattleya subg. Intermediae
Species:
C. tigrina
Binomial name
Cattleya tigrina
A.Rich.
Synonyms
  • Cattleya guttata subvar. immaculata Rchb.f.
  • Cattleya guttata var. leopardina L. Linden & Rodigas
  • Cattleya guttata var. leopoldii (Verschaff. ex Lem.) Linden & Rchb.f.
  • Cattleya guttata var. purpurea Cogn.
  • Cattleya guttata var. williamsiana Rchb.f.
  • Cattleya leopoldii f. alba (Fowlie) M. Wolff & O. Gruss
  • Cattleya leopoldii f. caerulea (L.C. Menezes) M. Wolff & O. Gruss
  • Cattleya leopoldii f. immaculata (Rchb.f.) M. Wolff & O. Gruss
  • Cattleya leopoldii var. alba Fowlie
  • Cattleya leopoldii var. immaculata (Rchb.f.) Fowlie
  • Cattleya leopoldii var. leopardina (L. Linden & Rodigas) Fowlie
  • Cattleya leopoldii var. williamsiana (Rchb.f.) Fowlie
  • Cattleya leopoldii Verschaff. ex Lem.
  • Cattleya sororia Rchb.f.
  • Cattleya tigrina var. caerulea L.C. Menezes
  • Cattleya tigrina var. immaculata (Rchb.f.) Braem
  • Cattleya tigrina var. leopardina (L. Linden & Rodigas) Braem
  • Cattleya tigrina var. purpurea (Cogn.) Braem
  • Cattleya tigrina var. williamsiana (Rchb.f.) Braem
  • Epidendrum elatius var. leopoldii (Verschaff. ex Lem.) Rchb.f.
  • Epidendrum elegans Vell.

Hybrids

Cattleya × elegans is a hybrid orchid with a formula hybridae Cattleya purpurata (Lindl. & Paxton) Van den Berg (2008) × Cattleya tigrina A.Rich. (1848). It is found in South and South-East Brazil.

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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