Aa sphaeroglossa Schltr. 1922

TYPE Drawing by Schlechter and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

Common Name The Sphere Shaped Lip Aa

Flower Size

Found in Bolivia at elevations of 3300 to 3800 meters as a miniature to small sized, cold growing terrestrial with an erect stem carrying a few, erect-patent, elliptic-lanceolate leaves that blooms on an erect, terminal, peduncle 3.6 to 6" [9 to 15 cm] long, provided with clasping, acuminate, hyaline sheathing bracts, rachis, [1 to 2" [2.5 to 5 cm] long, subdensely many flowered inflorescence with transversely rhombic, a bit shorter than the flower floral bracts.

"This species ca be confused with Aa microtidis but A sphaeroglossa has larger flowersand in all is closer to A mandonii but is easily separated by the different lip and column." Schlechter 1922

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 10: 36 Schlechter 1922

Iconografia de Orchidaceae Do Brasil Hoehne 1949 drawing fide

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