Kingdom Plantae Family Orchidaceae Tribe Epidendreae Rank Species | Order Asparagales Subfamily Epidendroideae Subtribe Pleurothallidinae | |
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Similar Acianthera welsiae‑windischiae, Acianthera gracilisepala, Acianthera bicornuta, Acianthera malachantha | ||
Acianthera magalhanesii is a species of orchid. It is originary from Mines Gerais and Bahia, Brazil. It belongs to the section Sicaria.
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Description
It characterises by a cespitose growth with secondary stems, also called ramicauls, with the triangular upper section, wider in the base that in the leaf, subsessile inflorescence with few or a lot of flowers, floral segments often thick, or slightly pubescents or papilloses in a group of more fibrous and resistant plants, with canaliculate ramicauls without wings or with narrow wings, that resembles an additional leaf. This species is similar to Acianthera oligantha but smaller than it with flowers smaller and all the lip, yellow, extended in the intermediate part.
Taxonomy
Acianthera magalhanesii was described by (Pabst) F.Muds and published in Hoehnea 30(3): 186. 2003
Acianthera: generic name that it is a reference to the position of the anthers of some of his species.
magalhanesii: Epithet