Altensteinia boliviensis Rolfe ex Rusby 1895
Photo by Senghas/Drawing by Bennett & Christenson/ Drawing by Dodson and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
Common Name The Bolivian Altensteinia
Flower Size .8" [2 cm]
Found in Bolivia and Peru on grass and shrub covered rocky slopes and montane wet forests at elevations around 2200 meters as a medium szied, cold growing terrestrial with a stem enveloped by imbricating leaf sheath bases, in a basal rosette, lanceolate, oblanceolate, to ovate, acute, basally clasping leaves that blooms in the summer through fall on an erect, terminal, long-pedunculate, peduncle to 10 to 18" [25 to 45 cm] long, rachis 4 to 5" [10 to 12.5 cm] long, racemose, conic-cylindric, densely many flowered, spicate inflorescence with ovate to ovate-lanceolate, acute floral bractgs and carrying non-resupinate flowers.
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Mem. Torrey Bot. Club 4: 265 Rolfe ex Rusby 1895
Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Series II Plate 0006 Dodson 1989 drawing fide;
Icones Orchidacearum Peruviarum Plate 604 Bennett & Christenson 2001 drawing fide;
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