Brassavola cucullata
| Daddy long-legs orchid | |
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| 1829 illustration from Curtis's botanical magazine | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Monocots |
| Order: | Asparagales |
| Family: | Orchidaceae |
| Subfamily: | Epidendroideae |
| Genus: | Brassavola |
| Species: | B. cucullata
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| Binomial name | |
| Brassavola cucullata (L.) R. Br. (1813)
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| Synonyms[1] | |
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Brassavola cucullata, common name daddy long-legs orchid, is a species of orchid native to Mexico (from Sinaloa and San Luis Potosí south to Chiapas and the Yucatán Peninsula), Belize, Central America, the West Indies and northern South America (Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, French Guinea).[1][2][3][4]
Brassavola cucullatais the type species 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.[5]
References[edit]
- ^ a b "World Checklist of Selected Plant Families: Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew". wcsp.science.kew.org.
- ^ Fernández-Concha, Germán Carnevali; Tapia-Muñoz, José Luis; Jiménez-Machorro, Rolando; Sánchez-Saldaña, Luis; Ibarra-González, León; Ramírez, Ivón M.; Gómez, Mauro P. (2001). "Notes on the Flora of the Yucatan Peninsula Ii: A Synopsis of the Orchid Flora of the Mexican Yucatan Peninsula and a Tentative Checklist of the Orchidaceae of the Yucatan Peninsula Biotic Province". Harvard Papers in Botany. 5 (2): 383–466. ISSN 1043-4534. JSTOR 41761614.
- ^ Hamer, Fritz (January 1988). "ORCHIDS OF CENTRAL AMERICA: An Illustrated Field Guide (A-L)". Selbyana. 10 (Supplement): 50. OCLC 19560208.
- ^ V. Funk; T. Hollowell; P. Berry; C. Kelloff; S. N. Alexander (July 31, 2007). Checklist of the plants of the Guiana Shield (Venezuela: Amazonas, Bolivar, Delta Amacuro; Guyana, Surinam, French Guiana). Department of Botany, National Museum of Natural History. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.454.3269.
- ^ Felix, Leonardo P.; Guerra, Marcelo (25 June 2010). "Variation in chromosome number and the basic number of subfamily Epidendroideae (Orchidaceae)". Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society. 163 (2): 250. doi:10.1111/j.1095-8339.2010.01059.x.
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