Aa hartwegii Garay 1978
Photo by © Karl Senghas and the The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
TYPE Drawing by © Dunsterville & Garay and the The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
Similar species Plant in situ Peru
Photos by © and the Fundación Jardín Botánico Nacional de Viña del's photostream Flickr Orchid Photo Site
Common Name Hartweg's Aa [German Orchid Collector in Mexico 1800's]
Flower Size .15" [3 mm]
Found in Venezuela, Colombia and Ecuador at elevations of 2700 to 4100 meters as a large sized, cold growing terrestrial with basal, narrowly lanceolate, acute, gradually narrowing below into the clasping, subpetiolate base leaves that blooms in the spring and summer on a lateral, erect, glabrous, cylindrical, densely many flowered inflorescence with ovate-lanceolate, acute floral bracts.
CAUTION The second set of photos above are suspect, they are similar to Aa hartwegii but it has not been cited from Peru so please use with caution Dunsterville & Garays drawing is absolutely correct!
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Venezuelan Orchids Illustrated Vol 5 Dunsterville & Garay 1966 as Altensteinia leucantha not = A a Harwegii drawing fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 52 #1 1983 drawing fide; *Flora of Ecuador No 9 225[1] Garay 1978 drawing fide; Orchids of Venezuela, An Illustrated Field Guide Vol 1 Dunsterville & Garay 1979 drawing good; Flora Of Ecuador # 76 225[2] Dodson & Luer 2005; AOS Bulletin Vol 77 no 11 2008 photo good; Orchids, A Colombian Treasure Vol 1 2014 drawing/photo fide
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