Cattleya warscewiczii

Cattleya warscewiczii
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
(unranked):	Angiosperms
(unranked):	Monocots
Order:	Asparagales
Family:	Orchidaceae
Subfamily:	Epidendroideae
Tribe:	Epidendreae
Subtribe:	Laeliinae
Alliance:	Cattleya
Genus:	Cattleya
Species:	C. warscewiczii
Binomial name
	Cattleya warscewiczii; Rchb.f. (1854)
Synonyms
	Cattleya gigas Linden & André (1873); Cattleya sanderiana H. Low, Gard. Chron. (1882); Cattleya imperialis O'Brien (1883); Cattleya gloriosa Carrière (1885);

Cattleya warscewiczii (The "Warscewicz's Cattley's orchid"), a labiate Cattleya, is a species of orchid.

It was first collected by Józef Warszewicz in Colombia in 1848-49 and formally described by Heinrich Gustav Reichenbach in 1855.^[1] C. warscewiczii exhibits a typical Cattleya sympodial habit. Pseudobulbs are 8-16" (20-40 cm) long, unifoliate, cylindrical or cigar-shaped, grooved. Flowers are 7-11" (17.5-27.5 cm) across, largest in the genus, showy, fragrant.^[2]^[3] In culture the flowering is in summer on that year`s spring growth. Strong light and good air movement are required.

The diploid chromosome number of C. warscewiczii has been determined as 2n = 40; the haploid chromosome number as n = 20.^[4]

C. warscewiczii hybridizes naturally with C. aurea / dowiana^{[nb 1]}, producing C. x hardyana.^[1]^[6] C. warscewiczii has also been used extensively in Cattleya hybridization, to produce large-flowered hybrid Cattleyas.^[7]

Notes

^ C. aurea has now been established to be a separate species from C. dowiana,^[5] but has occasionally been considered a subspecies in the past. C. aurea is a Colombian species, like C. warscewivzii, while C. dowiana is found in Costa Rica and Panama.

External links

^ ^a ^b The Showy Cattleya, Queen of the Orchids (Beginners` Handbook - XV) American Orchid Society Bulletin Vol.25, No.2 p.159 (1956) [1]
^ http://www.orchidspecies.com/cattlwarscewiczii.htm
^ I. F. La Croix. The New Encyclopedia of Orchids: 1500 Species in Cultivation (Timber Press, 2008), p.92
^ 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
^ Van den Berg, Cassio. "Reaching a compromise between conflicting nuclear and plastid phylogenetic trees: a new classification for the genus Cattleya (Epidendreae; Epidendroideae; Orchidaceae)." Phytotaxa 186.2 (2014): 75-86. [2]
^ http://www.orchidspecies.com/catthardyana.htm
^ http://www.aos.org/blog/general/hereditary-influences-of-the-cattleya-alliance.aspx

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[6] C. aurea has now been established to be a separate species from C. dowiana,^[5] but has occasionally been considered a subspecies in the past. C. aurea is a Colombian species, like C. warscewivzii, while C. dowiana is found in Costa Rica and Panama.

[S1-1] The Showy Cattleya, Queen of the Orchids (Beginners` Handbook - XV) American Orchid Society Bulletin Vol.25, No.2 p.159 (1956) [1]

[2] ttp://www.orchidspecies.com/cattlwarscewiczii.htm

[3] I. F. La Croix. The New Encyclopedia of Orchids: 1500 Species in Cultivation (Timber Press, 2008), p.92

[4] 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

[5] Van den Berg, Cassio. "Reaching a compromise between conflicting nuclear and plastid phylogenetic trees: a new classification for the genus Cattleya (Epidendreae; Epidendroideae; Orchidaceae)." Phytotaxa 186.2 (2014): 75-86. [2]

[7] ttp://www.orchidspecies.com/catthardyana.htm

[8] ttp://www.aos.org/blog/general/hereditary-influences-of-the-cattleya-alliance.aspx

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