Andinia

(pronounced: an-DIN-ee-ah)

Classification

Epidendreae subtribe Pleurothallidinae

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Etymology

Named for the Andes Mountains.

Distribution

A genus of two species endemic to Ecuador. This genus was formerly included in a broadly defined Salpistele as Salpistele subgen. Andinia Luer because of the similarity of the columns but differ from that genus by their trailing habit, echinate-muricate o

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Literature

Luer, C. A. 2000. Icones Pleurothallidinarum XX, Systematics of Jostia, Andinia, Barbosella, Barbrodria, & Pleurothallis subgen. Antilla, subgen. Effusia, subgen. Restrepioidea. Monogr. Syst. Bot. 79:1-140.
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