Aa figueroi Szlach. & S.Nowak 2014TYPE Drawing by S Nowak and The Springer Link Website

Common Name Figueroa's Aa [Colombian Co-Collector of Species current]

Flower Size

Found in Cundinamarca and Magdalena departments of Colombia in Paramo at elevations of 2600 to 4150 meters as a medium sized, cold growing terrestrial with an erect stem carrying 3 to 6, at the base of the stem, lanceolate, petiolate base leaves that blooms in the summer on a terminal, erect, to 20" [50 cm] long overall, provided with 13 to 18, loosely sheathed, rachis cylindrical, to 3.2" [8 cm] long, densely many flowered inflorescence with elliptic to elliptic-ovate, acute, entire margin, more than twice as long as the ovary floral bracts.

Similar to Aa colombiana but Aa figueroi differs in the fimbriate margin of the lip and the stalked, subquadrate anther while the other has lacerate-fimbriate margins of the lip and the anther is sessile and reniform-cordate.

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Plant Syst Evol 300: 1833 S. Szlachetko, D.L. & Nowak 2014 drawings fide

Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol 2: 29 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2019 drawing fide

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