Cattleya tigrina

Cattleya tigrina
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. Falcata
Section: C. sect. Guttatae
Species: C. tigrina
Binomial name
Cattleya tigrina
A. Rich. (1848)
Synonyms
  • Cattleya guttata subvar. immaculata Rchb.f. (1886)
  • Cattleya guttata var. leopardina L. Linden & Rodigas (1885)
  • Cattleya guttata var. leopoldii (Verschaff. ex Lem.) Linden & Rchb.f. (1860)
  • Cattleya guttata var. purpurea Cogn. (1900)
  • Cattleya guttata var. williamsiana Rchb.f. (1884)
  • Cattleya leopoldii f. alba (Fowlie) M. Wolff & O. Gruss (2007)
  • Cattleya leopoldii f. caerulea (L.C. Menezes) M. Wolff & O. Gruss (2007)
  • Cattleya leopoldii f. immaculata (Rchb.f.) M. Wolff & O. Gruss (2007)
  • Cattleya leopoldii var. alba Fowlie (1964)
  • Cattleya leopoldii var. immaculata (Rchb.f.) Fowlie (1977)
  • Cattleya leopoldii var. leopardina (L. Linden & Rodigas) Fowlie (1964)
  • Cattleya leopoldii var. williamsiana (Rchb.f.) Fowlie (1964)
  • Cattleya leopoldii Verschaff. ex Lem. (1854)
  • Cattleya sororia Rchb.f. (1888)
  • Cattleya tigrina var. caerulea L.C. Menezes (1993)
  • Cattleya tigrina var. immaculata (Rchb.f.) Braem (1984)
  • Cattleya tigrina var. leopardina (L. Linden & Rodigas) Braem (1984)
  • Cattleya tigrina var. purpurea (Cogn.) Braem (1984)
  • Cattleya tigrina var. williamsiana (Rchb.f.) Braem (1984)
  • Epidendrum elatius var. leopoldii (Verschaff. ex Lem.) Rchb.f.(1862)
  • Epidendrum elegans Vell. (1831)

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

Footnotes and External Links

  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
External identifiers for Cattleya tigrina
NCBI 482448
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