Cattleya granulosa

Granulose 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. Falcata
Section: C. sect. Granulosae
Species: C. granulosa
Binomial name
Cattleya granulosa
Lindl. (1842)
Synonyms
  • Epidendrum granulosum (Lindl.) Rchb.f. (1861)
  • Cattleya granulosa var. russelliana Lindl. (1845)
  • Cattleya granulosa var. buyssoniana O'Brien (1890)

Cattleya granulosa (the "granulose Cattleya") is a bifoliate Cattleya species of orchid. It is endemic to Brazil;[1] the type specimen was reported to come from Guatemala, but this is likely erroneous.[2] The diploid chromosome number of C. granulosa has been determined as 2n = 40.[3]

  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
External identifiers for Cattleya granulosa
Encyclopedia of Life 1090659
NCBI 142262
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