Cattleya dowiana

Dow's 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. Cattleya
Section:	C. sect. Xantheae
Species:	C. dowiana
Binomial name
	Cattleya dowiana; Bateman & Rchb.f. (1866)
Synonyms
	Cattleya aurea Linden; Cattleya chrysotaxa (Sander) God.-Leb.; Cattleya labiata var. dowiana (Bateman & Rchb.f.) A.H.Kent;

Cattleya dowiana (literal translation: Dow's Cattleya) is a species of orchid. The diploid chromosome number of C. dowiana has been determined as 2n = 40; the haploid chromosome number has been determined as n = 20.^[2]

Footnotes and External Links

^ "The Plant List".
^ 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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[1] "The Plant List".

[2] 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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