Aa macra Schltr. 1921TYPE Drawing by Schlechter and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

Another Drawing Drawing by Pastorelli and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

Common Name The Large Aa

Flower Size Minute

Found in Ecuador in paramo at elevations of 2600 to 3450 meters as a medium sized, cold growing terrestrial with that blooms in the fall on an erect, terminal, slender, completly enveloped by to 12, thin, diaphanous, shortly acuminate sheaths, narrowly cylindrical, many flowered inflorescence with very hyaline, recurved medianally, ovate, obtuse, somewhat surpassing the flowers in length floral bracts.

Synonyms Altensteinia macra (Schltr.) A.D.Hawkes 1950

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora of Ecuador 9(225: 1): 168 Garay 1978; Flora Of Ecuador # 76 225[2] Dodson & Luer 2005

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