Alamania

Genus of orchids

Not to be confused with the historic geographic region Alamannia.

Alamania

Scientific 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]

* Alamania punicea subsp. greenwoodiana Soto Arenas & R.Jiménez[3] \- Hidalgo, Oaxaca, Puebla, Querétaro, San Luis Potosí, Veracruz
* Alamania punicea subsp. punicea \- similar range

## 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

## External links

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* IOSPE orchid species photos

Taxon identifiers

Alamania|

* Wikidata: Q20819
* Wikispecies: Alamania (Orchidaceae)
* BOLD: 412372
* CoL: 8VTHV
* EoL: 107513
* GBIF: 2813003
* GRIN: 349
* iNaturalist: 272885
* IPNI: 28648-1
* IRMNG: 1301083
* NCBI: 123100
* Open Tree of Life: 219630
* POWO: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:60460309-2
* Tropicos: 40035139
* WFO: wfo-4000001080

Alamania punicea|

* Wikidata: Q10734161
* Wikispecies: Alamania punicea
* BOLD: 412373
* CoL: 666GM
* EoL: 1094868
* GBIF: 2813004
* iNaturalist: 276443
* IPNI: 60460310-2
* NCBI: 123101
* Open Tree of Life: 219629
* Plant List: kew-5523
* POWO: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:60460310-2
* Species+: 18411
* Tropicos: 23501388
* WFO: wfo-0000936540

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