Cattleya percivaliana
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| Alliance: | Cattleya
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| Subgenus: | Cattleya subg. Cattleya
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| Section: | Cattleya sect. Cattleya
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| Species: | C. percivaliana
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| Cattleya percivaliana (Rchb.f.) O'Brien (1883)
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Cattleya percivaliana (literally Percival's Cattley's) is a species of orchid. It shares the common name of "Christmas Orchid" with C. trianae and Angraecum sesquipedale.[1] The diploid chromosome number of C. percivaliana has been determined as 2n = 40. The haploid chromosome number has been determined as n = 20.[2]
References and external links
- ^ http://orchidlady.com/pages/orchidGarden/ChristmasPartTwo.html
- ^ 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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