Adamantinia

Adamantinia is a monotypic genus of orchids (family Orchidaceae), described in 2004[1] by Cássio van den Berg and Cezar Neubert Gonçalves. The name is a reference to Chapada Diamantina, Brazil, where this species comes from.

Adamantinia
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Order: Asparagales
Family: Orchidaceae
Subfamily: Epidendroideae
Tribe: Epidendreae
Subtribe: Laeliinae
Genus: Adamantinia
Van den Berg & C.N. Gonçalves (2004)
Species:
A. miltonioides
Binomial name
Adamantinia miltonioides
Van den Berg & C.N. Gonçalves

The single species, Adamantinia miltonioides, 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. DNA data from trnL-F plastid sequences indicate relationships to Leptotes and Isabelia.[1]

References
  1. "van den Berg, C. & Gonçalves, C. N. 2004. Adamantinia, a new showy genus of Laeliinae from Eastern Brazil. Orchid Digest 68(4): 230-232" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2009-03-20. Retrieved 2020-06-08.

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