Brassavola tuberculata

Brassavola tuberculata is a species of orchid native to Bolivia, Paraguay and Brazil.[1]

Brassavola tuberculata
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
Section:	B. sect. Sessilabia
Species:	B. tuberculata
Binomial name
Brassavola tuberculata Hook. (1829)
Synonyms[1]
Bletia tuberculata (Hook.) Rchb.f. (1862) Tulexis bicolor Raf. (1838) Brassavola fragrans Lem. (1853) Brassavola gibbsiana G.Nicholson (1884)

Its diploid chromosome number has been determined as 2n = 40; its haploid chromosome number has been determined as n = 20.[2]

References

1. Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
2. 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