Aa schickendantzii Schltr. 1920

ISOTYPE Collection sheet by © F Schickendantz

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Common Name Schickendantz's Aa [German Collector of the type 1837-1896]

Flower Size

Found in northwestern Argentina above 2000 meters as a medium sized, cold growing terrestrial with an erect stem carrying basal, strict to substrict, terete, glabrous leaves that blooms in the later spring with or withoput leaves on an erect, terminal, 16 to 20" [40 to 50 cm] long overall, peduncle 14 to 14.8" [35 to 37 cm] long, provided with 15 to 17, tightly clasping, acuminate, whitish, diaphanous sheathing bracts, rachis 6 to 6.8" [15 to 17 cm] long, very densely many flowered inflorescence with suborbicular-ovate, subacute, concave, recurvved in the upper half, as long as the flowers floral bracts and carrying glabrous flowers.

"In habit similar to Aa matthewsii but A schickendantzii is distinguished by the three lobed, very short and finely toothed labellum." Schlechter 1920

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. 16: 438 Schlechter 1920

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