Aa weddelliana (Rchb.f.) Schltr. 1912
Plant and Flowers in situ as an epiphyte
Plant and Flowers in situ as a terrestro-lithophyte
Photos by © The Instituto de Botanica Darwinion
TYPE Drawing by Hoehne and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
Common Name Weddell's Aa [English Plant Collector in Brazil 1800's]
Flower Size Minute
Found in Lima department of Peru, Bolivia and northwestern Argentina at elevations around 2700 to 4400 meters as a small sized, cold growing terrestrial with rosulate, cuneate-ligulate leaves arising on a separate shoot, that blooms in the summer on a more or less slender, 9.2 to 20.4" [23 to 51 cm] long, almost entirely enveloped by tubular-cylindric, imbricating, membraneous, acute sheathing bracts, rachis 3.5 to 3.6" [7 to 9 cm] cylindric, densely many flowered inflorescence with triangular-ovate, shorter than the flower floral bracts and carrying glabrous flower.
Synonyms *Altensteinia weddelliana Rchb.f. 1878
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Xenia Orchid. 3: 19 Rchb.f 1878 as Altensteinia weddelliana
* Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. 11: 150 Schlechter 1912
Iconografia de Orchidaceae Do Brasil Hoehne 1949 drawing fide;
Orchids of Peru Vol 1: 103 Schweinfurth 1958 as Altensteinia wedelliana;
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