Aa trilobulata Schltr. 1922TYPE Drawing by Schlechter and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

Another Drawing Drawing by © Vasquez and Dodson and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

Common Name The Three Lobed Aa [refers to the 3 lobed lip]

Flower Size small

Found in Bolivia on dry rocky slopes at elevations around 2800 meters as a medium sized, cold growing terrestrial with 2 narrowly linear, acute, conduplicate petiolate base leaves that blooms in the summer on a terminal, erect, partially enveloped by tubular, glabrous then lightly puberulous apically sheaths, to 20" [50 cm] long, rachis, 2" [5 cm] long, cylindric, densely many folowered inflorescence carrying non-resupinate flowers.

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 502 Vasquez & Dodson 1982 drawing fide;

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