Pollardia varicosa [Lindl.] Withner & Harding 2004 Photos by © Pupulin, Used under permission of Epidendra Website CR

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Common Name The Veined Pollardia

Flower Size to about 1" [to about 2.5 cm]

Endemic to Jalisco, Michoacan, Guerrero, Morelos, Oaxaca, Vera Cruz, Puebla, and Hidalgo states of Mexico, this small sized, epiphytic, terrestrial or lithophytic species occurs at 1500 to 2800 meters in elevations in wet forests of oak and pine-oak with ovoid-fusiform to ovoid-elliptic, pseudobulbs that extend apically to a thin neck and carrying 2 to 3, apical, elliptic-oblong, to elliptic-lanceolate, acute or subacute leaves an inflorescence that is apical, erect or arching from 1 1/2 to 20" [75 to 80 cm] long, simple and has from 4 to 25 fragrant, longlasting, glossy textured flowers that blooms mostly in the winter or summer. Chiapas Mx. and Honduras, 1370 to 2400 meters in elev., Montebello Lakes area, terrestrial in shade of large rocks.

Synonyms Encyclia chiriquensis (Rchb. f.) Schltr. 1918; Encyclia phymatoglossa (Rchb. f.) Schltr. 1918; Encyclia varicosa (Bateman ex Lindl.) Schltr. 1918; Encyclia varicosa subs lieobulbon [Hkr.] Dressler & Pollard 1971 ; Epidendrum chiriquense Rchb. f. 1852; Epidendrum leiobulbon Hook. f. 1841; Epidendrum lunaeanum A. Rich. ex Lindl. 1853; Epidendrum phymatoglossum Rchb. f. 1852; Epidendrum quadratum Klotzsch 1850; Epidendrum ramirezzi Gojon Sanchez 1930; *Epidendrum varicosum Bateman ex Lindl. 1838; Prosthechea varicosa (Bateman ex Lindl.) W. E. Higgins 1997; Pseudencyclia varicosa (Bateman ex Lindl.) V.P.Castro & Chiron 2003

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Lankester's Epidendra Website CR ; Xenia Orchidaceae Rchb.f 1854 as Epidendrum varicosum drawing fide; Xenia Orchidaceae Rchb.f 1854 as Epidendrum phymatoglossum drawing fide; Xenia Orchidaceae Rchb.f 1854 as Epidendrum chiriquense drawing fide; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965 as Epidendrum varicosum; Las Orquedias De El Salvador Vol 1 Hamer 1974 as Epidendrum varicosum drawing/photo fide; Las Orquedias de El Salvador Vol 3 Hamer 1981 as Epidendrum varicosum drawing fide; Flora Novo-Galaciana Vol 16 McVaugh 1985 as Encyclia varicosa; *Cattleya and Their Relatives Vol 7 Withner & Harding 2004 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 77 No 9 2008 photo as Pseudencyclia varicosa

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