Alamania

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Alamania

Genus of orchids

Not to be confused with the historic geographic region Alamannia.

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]

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


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