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Anathallis rubens (Anathallis rubens)

Description

Anathallis rubens , is a species of orchid of epiphytic habitoriginally from South America , in Brazil it is found in the Caatinga , the Cerrado and the Atlantic Forest. It is an orchid of miniature size, that prefers the warm climate, cespitose epiphyte with erect ramicaules wrapped with 1 to 3 large bracts, scarious and bearing a leaf, apical, oblong-elliptic, subacute, coriaceous. It blooms in the autumn in an erect inflorescence for arching of 11 cm in length, opening at the same time several flowers, the inflorescence is racemosa with several tubular, ovate and acute floral bracts.

Taxonomic tree

  • Domain: Eukarya

    • Kingdom: Plantae

      • Phylum: Magnoliophyta

        • Class: Liliopsida

          • Order: Asparagales

            • Family: Orchidaceae

              • Genus: Anathallis