Anacheilium alagoensis [Pabst] Pabst, Moutinho & Pinto 1981
Photo courtesy of Patricia Harding
Drawing by V P Castro
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Common Name The Aloagoas Anacheilium [a state of Brazil]
Flower Size .76" [1.9 cm]
Found in Alagoas and Bahia states of Brazil in Atlantic coastal rainforests at elevations of 800 to 1000 meters as a small sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with erect, spindle-shaped, slightly compressed pseudobulbs carrying 2, apical, narrowly elliptical to linear leaves that blooms in the late winter and early spring on a short to 1.25" long [to 3.1 cm] long, 1 to 2 flowered, racemose inflorescence with non-resupinate flowers.
Synonyms Encyclia alagoensis (Pabst) Pabst 1967 publ. 1972; *Epidendrum alagoense Pabst 1964; Prosthechea alagoensis (Pabst) W.E.Higgins 1997 publ. 1998.
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Anais Congr. Soc. Bot. Brasil 14: 18 Pabst 1964 as Epidendrum alagoense;
Orquídea (Rio de Janeiro) 29: 276 Pabst 1967 publ. 1972 as Encyclia alagoensis;
*Bradea 3: 182 Pabst, Moutinho & A.V.Pinto 1981
Phytologia 82: 376 W E Higgins 1997 publ. 1998 as Prosthechea alagoense;
The Cattleyas and Their Relatives, the Debateable Epidendrum Withner and Harding 2004 photo fide;
Icones Orchidacearum Brasilienses II Plate 179 Castro 2006 as Prosthechea alagoensis drawing ok/ photo fide
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