Ponthieva formosa Schltr 1923

Plant en situ in Costa Rica Photos by © Walter Schug and His MesoAmerican Orchid Page

Full ShadeWarm Cool Winter Spring

Common Name The Beautiful Ponthieva

Flower Size .45" [1.1 cm]

Found in Mexico, El Salvador, Guatemala, Costa Rica and Panama at elevations of 1600 to 2500 meters as a miniature to small sized, warm to cool growing terrestrial with a few erect to erect-patent, lanceolate to lanceolate-elliptic, acuminate, cuneate below into the pilose, channeled, petiolate base leaves that blooms in the winter and spring a very weak, terete, densely pubescent, erect to ascending, , 3.2" [8 cm] long, few [2 to 6] flowered inflorescence with elliptic, shortly acuminate, pilose floral bracts

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Lankester's Epidendra Website CR ; *Repert. Sp. Nov. Regni. Veg. Beih. 19: 12. Costa Rica Schlechter 1923; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 1574 Atwood 1993 as P brenesii [not a synonym, explains why]

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