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Cattleya granulosa

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Species of orchid

Cattleya granulosa
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Order: Asparagales
Family: Orchidaceae
Subfamily: Epidendroideae
Genus: Cattleya
Subgenus: Cattleya subg. Intermediae
Species: C. granulosa
Binomial name
Cattleya granulosa
Lindl.
Synonyms
  • Epidendrum granulosum (Lindl.) Rchb.f.
  • Cattleya granulosa var. russelliana Lindl.
  • Cattleya granulosa var. buyssoniana O'Brien

Cattleya granulosa (the "granulose Cattleya") is a bifoliate Cattleya species of orchid. It is endemic to Brazil; the type specimen was reported to come from Guatemala, but this is likely erroneous. The diploid chromosome number of C. granulosa has been determined as 2n = 40.

References

  1. Cattleya granulosa. Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families.
  2. Cattleya granulosa. JSTOR Global Plants.
  3. 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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Taxon identifiers
Cattleya granulosa


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