Anacheilium allemanoides [Hoehne] Pabst, Moutinho, Pinto 1981 SECTION Holochila
Photo courtesy of Marcos Campacci
Drawing By © Chiron
Common Name or Meaning The Allemanii-Like Anacheilium [Refers to Encyclia allemanii, named for a Brazilian botanist late 1800's]
Flower Size
Found in Brazil in the states of Espirito Santo, Minas Gerais and Sao Paulo at elevations around 500 to 1100 meters as a small to medium sized, cool to warm growing epiphyte with sheathed pseudobulbs carrying 2 to 3, intense green, apical leaves that blooms in the winter on a densely many flowered inflorescence that has successive opening, non resupinate flowers.
This species has also been described as Epidendrum X allemanoides Hoehne 1934 alluding to it being a natural hybrid betweeen Anacheilium allemanii and Anacheilium bulbosum . As yet it has not been proven.
Synonyms Encyclia allemanoides (Hoehne) Pabst 1972; *Epidendrum allemanoides Hoehne 1933; Epidendrum X allemanoides Hoehne 1934; Hormidium allemanoides [Hoehne] Brieger 1977; Prosthechea allemanoides [Hoehne] Higgins 1997
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Orchidaceae Brasilensis Vol 1 Pabst & Dungs 1972;
Orquídea (Rio de Janeiro) 29: 276 Pabst 1967 publ. 1972 as Encyclia allemanoides;
Die Orchideen 3 Auflage Bd 1 Sonderabdruck aus Schlechter Lieferung 9 513 - 576 Brieger, Maatsch and Senghas 1977 as Hormidium alemanoides photo fide;
Bradea 3: 182 Pabst, Moutinho & A.V.Pinto 1981 as Anacheilium allemanoides;
Bol. Agric. (São Paulo) 34: 616 Hoehne 1933 publ. 1934 as Epidendrum allemanoides
Phytologia 82: 376 W E Higgins 1997 publ. 1998 as Prosthechea allemanoides;
The Cattleyas and Their Relatives, the Debateable Epidendrum Withner and Harding 2004 photo fide;
Orchidees Du Bresil As Orchideas da Serra Do Castello Vol 3 Chiron & Bolsanello 2013 as Prosthechea allemanoides drawing/photo fide;
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