Cattleya forbesii

Forbes' 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. Intermedia
Species:	C. forbesii
Binomial name
	Cattleya forbesii; Lindl. (1826)
Synonyms
	Epidendrum pauper Vell. (1831); Maelenia paradoxa Dumort. (1834); Cattleya vestalis Hoffmanns. (1843); Cattleya fulva Beer (1854); Cattleya isopetala Beer (1854); Epidendrum forbesii (Lindl.) Rchb.f. (1861); Cattleya forbesii var. viridiflora Horta (1936); Cattleya pauper (Vell.) Stellfeld (1949);

Cattleya forbesii, the Forbes' Cattleya, is a species of orchid. The diploid chromosome number of C. forbesii has been determined as 2n = 54—60.^[1]

Footnotes and External Links

^ page 250 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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[1] 250 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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