Adamantinia
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Adamantinia
Adamantinia miltonioides
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Liliopsida
Order: Asparagales
Family: Orchidaceae
Subfamily: Epidendroideae
Tribe: Epidendreae
Subtribe: Laeliinae
Alliance: Isabelia
Genus: Adamantinia
Van den Berg & C.N. Gonçalves (2004)
Species

See text.

Adamantinia is a monotypic genus of orchids (family Orchidaceae). The name is a reference to Chapada Diamantina, Brazil, where this species comes from.

The single species is native to the Serra do Sincorá range (Brazil, Bahia, South America). It grows as an epiphyte at sunny positions, at about 900m altitude. Plants bear more or less clustered unifoliate pseudobulbs (rarely bifoliate), coriaceous dark-olive leaves, and possess long inflorescences with successive flowering. Flowers are showy, pink, with similar petals and sepals and a showy dark pink lip, with very small side lobes. Column is short, with a broad stigma.

References

van den Berg, C. & Gonçalves, C. N. 2004. Adamantinia, a new showy genus of Laeliinae from Eastern Brazil. Orchid Digest 68(4): 230-232.


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