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Alamania

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Alamania punicea is a species of epiphytic orchids[2] and the only species of the genus Alamania. It is endemic to Mexico and has two recognized varieties:[1]

Description

Small, epiphytic plant that prefers a cool climate, it has an ovoid pseudobulb with 2 to 3 coriaceous, oblong-elliptic, obtuse, articular, basal and broad leaves that blooms in an erect, terminal, cluster-shaped inflorescence that can carry one to nine red-orange flowers. It produces its flowering in the spring and early summer.

References

  1. ^ a b Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  2. ^ Lexarza, Juan José Martinez de. 1824. Annales des Sciences Naturelles (Paris) 3: 452
  3. ^ Soto Arenas & R. Jiménez. 2003. Icones Orchidacearum 5–6: , t. 516

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Alamania: Brief Summary

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Alamania punicea is a species of epiphytic orchids and the only species of the genus Alamania. It is endemic to Mexico and has two recognized varieties:

Alamania punicea subsp. greenwoodiana Soto Arenas & R.Jiménez - Hidalgo, Oaxaca, Puebla, Querétaro, San Luis Potosí, Veracruz Alamania punicea subsp. punicea - similar range
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