Epidendrum difforme

Different Epidendrum
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Monocots
Order: Asparagales
Family: Orchidaceae
Subfamily: Epidendroideae
Tribe: Epidendreae
Subtribe: Laeliinae
Genus: Epidendrum
Subgenus: E. subg.Epidendrum
Section: E. sect.Planifolia
Subsection: E. subsect.Umbellata
Species: E. difforme
Binomial name
Epidendrum difforme
Jacq. (1760)
Synonyms
  • Epidendrum radiatum Hoffmanns. (1842)
  • Epidendrum virens Hoffmanns. (1842)
  • Epidendrum arachnoideum Barb.Rodr. (1877)
  • Auliza difformis (Jacq.) Small (1913)
  • Amphiglottis difformis (Jacq.) Britton (1924)
  • Neolehmannia difformis (Jacq.) Pabst (1978)

Epidendrum difforme (the "Differently Formed Epidendrum") is a species of orchid in the genus Epidendrum. In 1861, Müller classified this species in the subsection Umbellata of the section Planifolia of subgenus Euepidendrum Lindl. of the genus Epidendrum.

The diploid chromosome number of E. difforme has been determined both as 2n = 40 and as 2n = 39.[1]

References

  1. ^ page 251 of 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. downloaded October 2010 from http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1095-8339.2010.01059.x/pdf

Reichenbach, H. G. "Orchides" in Müller, C. Ed. Walpers Annales Botanices Systematicae 6(1861)402-403. Berlin.

External links

External identifiers for Epidendrum difforme
NCBI 544609 
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