''Anathallis angustilabia'' is a species of plant in the

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family.

Distribution

It is endemic to Colombia.

Description

''Anathallis angustilabia'' is found in forests at elevations of 800 to 2500 meters. It is an epiphyte that blooms in late winter to early spring.

Taxonomy

It was named by

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, and

Mark Wayne Chase Mark Wayne Chase (born 1951) is a US-born British botanist. He is noted for work in plant classification and evolution, and one of the instigators of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group-classification for flowering plants which is partly based on DNA ...

in ''Lindleyana'' 16: 247 in 2001.

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q15498305 Anathallis Plants described in 2001 Flora of Colombia