Brassavola cucullata

Daddy long-legs orchid
1829 illustration from
Curtis's botanical magazine
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[1]
  • Epidendrum cucullatum L. (1763) (Basionym)
  • 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, 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), 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

  1. 1 2 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  2. ↑ Carnevali F., G., J. L. Tapia-Muñoz, R. Jiménez-Machorro, L. Sánchez-Saldaña, L. Ibarra-González, I. M. Ramírez & M. P. Gómez. 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.
  3. ↑ Hamer, F. 1988. Orchids of Central America. Selbyana 10(Suppl.): 1–430.
  4. ↑ Funk, V. A., P. E. Berry, S. Alexander, T. H. Hollowell & C. L. Kelloff. 2007. Checklist of the Plants of the Guiana Shield (Venezuela: Amazonas, Bolivar, Delta Amacuro; Guyana, Surinam, French Guiana). Contributions from the United States National Herbarium 55: 1–584
  5. ↑ 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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