Dorman's cattleya
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. dormaniana
Binomial name
Cattleya dormaniana
(Rchb.f.) Rchb.f.
Synonyms
  • Laelia dormaniana Rchb.f.
  • × Laeliocattleya dormaniana (Rchb.f.) Rolfe
  • Cattleya dormaniana var. alba L.C. Menezes
  • Cattleya dormaniana f. alba (L.C. Menezes) Christenson

Cattleya dormaniana, or Dorman's cattleya, is a bifoliate Cattleya species of orchid. The diploid chromosome number of C. dormaniana has been determined as 2n = 40.[1]

References

  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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