Cattleya bicolor

Bicolored Cattleya
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Monocots
Order: Asparagales
Family: Orchidaceae
Subfamily: Epidendroideae
Tribe: Epidendreae
Subtribe: Laeliinae
Alliance: Cattleya
Genus: Cattleya
Subgenus: C. subg. Schomburgkoidea
Species: C. bicolor
Binomial name
Cattleya bicolor
Lindl. (1836)
Synonyms
  • Cattleya bicolor var. splendida Rchb.f. (1857)
  • Cattleya bicolor var. wrigleyana Rchb.f. (1885)
  • Cattleya bicolor var. mearuresiana B.S. Williams (1888)
  • Cattleya bicolor var. olocheilos Klinge (1898)
  • Cattleya measuresiana (L.O.Williams) Blumensch. (1961)

Cattleya bicolor is a species of orchid.

Chromosome numbers of several C. bicolor individuals have been determined, finding diploid chromosome numbers of both 2n = 40 and 2n = 80 (tetraploid).[1]

Footnotes

  1. ↑ 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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External identifiers for Cattleya bicolor
NCBI 142256
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