Pollardia obpiribulbon {Hags] Withner & Harding 2004 Photo courtesy of Jay Pfahl
Another Color Form Photo courtesy of Noble Bashor
Inflorescence Photos courtesy of Robert Weyman Bussey
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Common Name The Inverted Pear-Shaped Pseudobulb Pollardia
Flower Size 3/4" [1.8 cm]
Oaxaca to Jalisco Mx., 1372m elev., South end of Puerto Angel Rd., epiphytic on oaks, Hillside above stream,
A small sized, warm to cool growing, rambling Mexican orchid occuring at elevations of 1300 to 2700 meters with inverted pear-shaped, slightly flattened pseudobullbs and 2 apical leaves that blooms on an apical, erect, 1 3/5 to 5 1/5" [4 to 13 cm] long, racemose inflorescence that is shorter or equal to the leaves and occurs in the late summer and early spring.
Synonyms*Encyclia obpiribulbon Hágsater 1982; Prosthechea obpiribulbon [Hags] Higgins 1997
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *The Cattleya and Their Relatives Vol 7 The Debateable Epidendrum Withner & Harding 2004 photo fide;
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