Cattleya aurea

Cattleya aurea
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. aurea
Binomial name
Cattleya aurea
Withner

Cattleya aurea ("Golden Yellow Cattleya ") is a species of labiate Cattleya orchid. The diploid chromosome number of C. aurea has been determinded to be 2n = 40.[1]

Footnotes and External Links

  1. ^ as C. dowiana var. aurea (Linden) B.S.Williams & Moore, 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
External identifiers for Cattleya aurea
EOL 1291530
NCBI 142255