Cattleya gaskelliana

Cattleya gaskelliana
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. Cattleya
Section: C. sect. Cattleya
Species: C. gaskelliana
Binomial name
Cattleya gaskelliana
(N.E.Br.) Rchb.f. (1883)
Synonyms
  • Cattleya labiata var. gaskelliana N.E.Br. (1883)

Cattleya gaskelliana (translation: Gaskell's Cattley's orchid) is a labiate Cattleya species of orchid. The diploid chromosome number of C. gaskelliana has been determined as 2n = 40.[1]

References

  1. page 250 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 onlinelibrary.wiley.com
External identifiers for Cattleya gaskelliana
NCBI 142261
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