Domingoa purpurea (Domingoa purpurea)
Description
Domingoa purpurea is native to Southwest Mexico and Central America, including Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and El Salvador. They usually grow in pine and oak forests on rocky hills, up to a height of 1500 m, on the slopes of mountains directed towards the Pacific. In Mexico, however, they are found in the states of Veracruz, Chiapas and Oaxaca, that is, on the Atlantic side of the continent. They grow there on horizontal branches of oaks in shallow moss and accumulated debris. It is a small sized, cool to warm growing epiphytic species, which reaching a height of 5-20 cm, with slender, erect, pseudobulbous, clavate, 2-8 cm long stems carrying a basally clasping, lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, acute or subacute, coriaceous, green, 3-12 cm long and 0.7-3.0 cm wide leaves that are spotted bronze-purple.
Taxonomic tree
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Domain: Eukarya
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Kingdom: Plantae
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Class: Liliopsida
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Order: Asparagales
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Family: Orchidaceae
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Genus: Domingoa
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