Alamania
{{Short description|Genus of orchids}}
{{distinguish|text=the historic geographic region Alamannia}}
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| image = Alamania punicea Orchi 03.jpg
| display_parents = 4
| genus = Alamania
| parent_authority = Lex. (1825)
| species = punicea
| authority = Lex. (1825)
| synonyms = Epidendrum puniceum (Lex.) Rchb.f. (1862)
}}
Alamania punicea is a species of epiphytic orchids[https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/5813773#page/462/mode/1up Lexarza, Juan José Martinez de]. 1824. Annales des Sciences Naturelles (Paris) 3: 452 and the only species of the genus Alamania. It is endemic to Mexico and has two recognized varieties:[http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.do?name_id=5522 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families]
- Alamania punicea subsp. greenwoodiana Soto Arenas & R.JiménezSoto Arenas & R. Jiménez. 2003. Icones Orchidacearum 5–6: , t. 516 - Hidalgo, Oaxaca, Puebla, Querétaro, San Luis Potosí, Veracruz
- Alamania punicea subsp. punicea - similar range
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
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External links
- [http://www.orchidspecies.com/alamaniapunicea.htm IOSPE orchid species photos]
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Category:Monotypic Epidendroideae genera
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