Alamania

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{{distinguish|text=the historic geographic region Alamannia}}

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| image = Alamania punicea Orchi 03.jpg

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| genus = Alamania

| parent_authority = Lex. (1825)

| species = punicea

| authority = Lex. (1825)

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| synonyms = Epidendrum puniceum (Lex.) Rchb.f. (1862)

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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]

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.

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