Pollardia linkiana [Klotsch] Withner & Harding 2004 Photo courtesy of Timothy Choltco
Another Flower Photo courtesy of Jay Pfahl
Another Color Variation Photo by Weyman Bussey 
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Common Name Link's Pollardia [German Botanist and Founder of Berlin Herbarium 1800's]
Flower Size 3/4" [1.8 cm]
Found as a hot to cool growing, small to medium sized epiphyte or ocassional lithophyte on rocks on hillsides and ravines found at elevations of 500 to 2300 meters in Nayarit, Jalisco, Coloma, Michoacan, Guerrerro, Mexico, Moreles, OAxaca and Vera Cruz states of Mexico in various forest types with ellipsoid-fusiform pseudobulbs that are spaced 3/4 to 1" apart and carrying 1 to 4, apical, narrowly ligular-elliptic leaves that blooms in the winter through summer with a terminal, 4 to 6" [10 to 15 cm] long, racemose inflorescence arising on a mature pseudobulb and carrying five to twelve, inconspicuously fragrant flowers.
Synonyms Encyclia linkiana (Klotzsch) Schltr. 1918; Encyclia squalida [LaLlave & Lex] Soto Arenas & Salazar; Epidendrum crispilabium A.Rich. & Galeotti 1845; *Epidendrum linkeanum Klotzsch 1838; Prosthechea linkiana (Klotzsch) W.E.Higgins 1997 publ. 1998; Epidendrum pastoris Link & Otto 1828; Epidendrum squalidum Lex. 1825; Prosthechea squalida [La Llave & Lex.] Soto, Salazar 2008; Pseudencyclia linkiana (Klotzsch) V.P.Castro & Chiron 2003
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Bonplandia Rchb.f 1856 as Epidendrum linkianum; Flora Novo-Galaciana Vol 16 McVaugh 1985 as Encyclia linkiana; *The Cattleya and Their Relatives Vol 7 The Debateable Epidendrum Withner & Harding 2004 photo fide;Icones Orchidacearum fascile 10 plate 1073 Hagsater & Soto 2008 as Prosthechea squalida drawing fide
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