Aa colombiana Schltr. 1920. Photo by © Lourens Grobler

Common Name The Colombian Aa

Flower Size

Found in Colombia and Ecuador on steep embankments mixed with grass and shrubs in upper montane forests at elevations of 2900 to 4300 meters as a medium sized, cold growing terrestrial with a stem carrying lanceolate, basally clasping, acute leaves that blooms in the winter on an erect, 8" [20 cm] long, densely many flowered inflorescence enveloped completely by tubular sheaths and carrying non-resupinate flowers with slender, maroon floral bracts.

Synonyms *Altensteinia colombiana (Schltr.) Garay 1953

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 501 Vasquez & Dodson 1982; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 1 Dodson & Escobar 1994