Broughtonia

Broughtonia
Broughtonia sanguinea
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Monocots
Order: Asparagales
Family: Orchidaceae
Subfamily: Epidendroideae
Tribe: Epidendreae
Subtribe: Laeliinae
Alliance: Cattleya
Genus: Broughtonia
R.Br.
Species
  • Broughtonia cubensis
  • Broughtonia domingensis
  • Broughtonia lindenii
  • Broughtonia negrilensis
  • Broughtonia ortgiesiana
  • Broughtonia sanguinea

Broughtonia is a genus of orchids (family Orchidaceae) of the Greater Antilles. The genus is abbreviated Bro in trade journals.

With the inclusion of the genera Cattleyopsis Lem. and Laeliopsis Lindl. & Paxton it consists of 6 species.

The haploid chromosome number of one species, B. sanguinea, has been determined as n = 20.[1]

Footnotes and References

  1. ^ 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

Nir, M. Orchidaceae Antillanae, 49-52, 2000.