Aa hartwegii Garay 1978

Plant in situ Peru Photo by © and the Fundación Jardín Botánico Nacional de Viña del's photostream Flickr Orchid Photo Site

Common Name Hartweg's Aa [German Orchid Collector in Mexico 1800's]

Flower Size .15" [3 mm]

Found in Venezuela, Colombia and Ecuador at elevations of 2700 to 4100 meters as a large sized, cold growing terrestrial with basal, narrowly lanceolate, acute, gradually narrowing below into the clasping, subpetiolate base leaves that blooms in the spring and summer on a lateral, erect, glabrous, cylindrical, densely many flowered inflorescence with ovate-lanceolate, acute floral bracts.

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list IPNI ; *Flora of Ecuador No 9 225[1] Garay 1978 drawing good; Orchids of Venezuela, An Illustrated Field Guide Vol 1 Dunsterville & Garay 1979 drawing good;

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