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Orchid Species: Alamania punicea
(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)
Alamania punicea is an orchid species identified by Lex. in 1824.
ORIGIN: This dwarf epiphytic orchid is found only in Mexico at elevations of 1500 to 2700 meters.
DESCRIPTION: This dwarf epiphytic orchid is found only in Mexico at elevations of 1500 to 2700 meters and is a miniature sized, cool growing species, in pastures and open woodlands, lava flows and attached to large oaks or on rocks beneath them with clustered, ovoid pseudobulbs with 2 to 3, coriaceous, oblong-elliptic, obtuse, slightly conduplicate, articulate basally, broad leaves and blooms in the spring and early summer on an erect, terminal, racemose, 1 to 5 flowered inflorescence that arises on a leafless pseudobulb that develops that way and is equal to or slightly shorter than the leaves.
FLOWER SIZE: 3/4 inch [1.2 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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