Brassavola cucullata

Brassavola cucullata
Brassavola cucullata
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Monocots
Order: Asparagales
Family: Orchidaceae
Subfamily: Epidendroideae
Tribe: Epidendreae
Subtribe: Laeliinae
Genus: Brassavola
Species: B. cucullata
Binomial name
Brassavola cucullata
(L.) R. Br. (1813)
Synonyms
  • Epidendrum cucullatum L. (1763) (Basionymum)
  • Cymbidium cucullatum (L.) Sw. (1799)
  • Brassavola cuspidata Hook. (1839)
  • Brassavola appendiculata A. Rich. & Galeotti (1845)
  • Brassavola odoratissima Regel (1852)
  • Bletia cucullata (L.) Rchb.f. (1862)
  • Bletia cucullata var. cuspidata (Hook.) Rchb.f. (1862)
  • Brassavola cucullata var. elegans Schltr. (1919)

Brassavola cucullata is a species of orchid. It is the type for the genus Brassavola, and the only member of B. sect. Brassavola. The diploid chromosome number of B. cucullata has been determined as 2n = 40.[1]

Footnotes

  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
External identifiers for Brassavola cucullata
ITIS 43729
NCBI 123110
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