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Alamania

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Alamania
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Order: Asparagales
Family: Orchidaceae
Subfamily: Epidendroideae
Tribe: Epidendreae
Subtribe: Laeliinae
Genus: Alamania
Lex. (1825)
Species:
A. punicea
Binomial name
Alamania punicea
Lex. (1825)
Synonyms[1]

Epidendrum puniceum (Lex.) Rchb.f. (1862)

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

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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

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  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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