Amblostoma cernua

Amblostoma cernua

Amblostoma cernua                                                                                                                                                       photo C.Solimbergo
(Epidendrum tridactylum)
     
taxonomy         described by Scheidweiler, Michael Joseph Francois 
  published in        Allgemeine Gartenzeitung  6 : (48) : 383   december 1  1838
     
   Family Orchidaceae
  Subfamily   Epidendroideae 
  Tribe Epidendreae
  Subtribe Laeliinae
  Genus Amblostoma  Scheidweiler 1838
     
  metabolism CAM pathway, stomata of the leaves are open at night.
    (K.Silvera, L.S. Santiago, J.C. Cushman, K. Winter - International Symposium on Plant Biology, August 2013)
    it is useful give the soluble mineal nutriens, on the roots.
     
native of origin Mexico, Ecuador, Peru, Brazil, Bolivia
  altitude  ≈ 900 m (2790 ft)         
  habitat climate informations from Pampulha (Mato Grosso, Brazil)
    Köppen climate classification : Cfa, humid subtropical climate in all seasons, with very hot summers
    the weather station data (temperatures are calculated for an altitude of 930 m / 3070 ft) :
    Amblostoma cernua a gr uk
  photoperiod  in Pampulha this orchid bloom with a photoperiod, that varies during the year, from 13 h 18 m' to 10 h 42 m'
  life form geophyte
  brightness     sunny
     
inflorescence     length 9 cm (3,6"), apical
  nr flowers 12 - 14
  size  a flower 0.7 L 0.7 cm  (0.28" L 0,28") - inflorescence  6 L 2.6 cm  (2,4" L  1.04")
  duration inflorescence ≈ 30 days
  time  to bloom from birth, ≈ 60 days
     
CITES appendix II

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