Ada andreettae Dodson 1993Photo by Ecuagenera and their Ecuador Orchid Website

Common Name or Meaning Father Andreetta's Ada [Ecuadorian Priest and Orchid Enthusiast Current]

Flower Size 1.2" [3 cm]

Found in Ecuador at elevations around 1800 meters as a warm to cool growing epiphyte with elliptic-ovoid pseudobulbs enveloped basally by leaf-bearing sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, lanceolate, obtuse, conduplicate below into the base leaf that blooms in the spring on an axillary, 6" [15 cm] long, several flowered, racemose inflorescence

Synonyms Brassia andreettae (Dodson) Senghas 1997

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 1 Dodson & Escobar 1994