Aa colombiana Schltr. 1920
Photos by © Universidad de los Andes and the Chingaza Botanical Website
Plant and Flowers in situ Ecuador
Photos by © Lourens Grobler
TYPE Drawing by Schlechter and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
Drawing by S Nowak/Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2019
Common Name The Colombian Aa
Flower Size
Found in +Antioqui, Cundinamarca, 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 without leaves, on an erect, 8" [20 cm] long, provided with and enveloped completely by loose, tubular sheathing bracts, rachis 2.8 to 3.2" [7 to 8 cm] long, cylindrical, densely many flowered inflorescence with slender, maroon, ovate, rhombic-ovate to deltoid, acute, irregular margins, reflexed in the middle, more than twice as long as the ovary floral bracts and carrying non-resupinate, subglobose, small flowers.
The 1st photo is more correct, I will sort out the other 2 photos soon.
Synonyms *Altensteinia colombiana (Schltr.) Garay 1953
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 7: 48 Schlechter 1920;
Svensk Bot. Tidskr. 47: 195 Garay 1953 as Altensteinia colombiana
Flora of Ecuador No 9 225[1] Garay 1978;
Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 501 Vasquez & Dodson 1982 drawing ok;
Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 401 Dodson 1989 drawing ok;
Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 1 Dodson & Escobar 1993 photo ok;
Flora Of Ecuador # 76 225[2] Dodson & Luer 2005;
Orchids, A Colombian Treasure Vol 1 Ortiz & Uribe 2014 photo fide;
Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol 2: 30 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2019 drawing fide
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