Native to Colombia
Edited 28 November 2007
© Nina Rach
Recently published, in 2006; named in honor of Andrea Niessen, Orquideas del Valle, Cali, Colombia, "who first showed the plants to the author at the Redland Orchid Festival."
Collected in June 2004 near border between Cundinmarca and Tolima, near Melgar, at an altitude of 700 m [warm-growing].
The striking, solid magenta flowers are medium-sized and not fragrant.
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Robert L. Dressler 2006. Orquideologia 24(2): 126 (125-132; photogr.; plate). 2006 [dt. Dec 2005; issued in 2006; Revista de la Sociedad Colombiana de Orquideologia].
ING: Index Nominum Genericorum,
URL: http://ravenel.si.edu/botany/ing/ingForm.cfm from the U.S. National Herbarium, Dept. of Systematic Biology - Botany, Smithsonian Institution
International Plant Names Index [IPNI],
www.ipni.org
