Ponthieva triloba Schltr. 1910 Mandonii group
Photos by Dr Carlos Rommel Beutelspacher and his Flickr Orchid Photo Website
Drawing by Fritz Hamer
Common Name The Three Lobed Lip Ponthieva
Flower Size .3 to .4" [7.5 to 10 mm]
Found in Mexico, Guatemala and San Salvador department of El Salvador in forests at elevations of 1300 to 2500 meters as a cool growing terrestrial orchid with basal, lustrous above, matte below, dorsally carinate, elliptic, acute, sessile or shortly petiolate leaves that blooms in the fall on a terminal, glabrous below and verrucose above, 8 to 15 flowered, racemose, 5" [12.5 cm] long inflorescence with 6, tight tubular bracts and a tubular floral bract.
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI
* Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. 9: 25 Schlechter 1910
Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih 49: Taf 8 #30 Schelchter/Mansfield 1931 drawing fide
Las Orquedias de El Salvador Vol 3: 208 Hamer 1981
Las Orquedias de El Salvador Vol 3: 209 Hamer 1981 drawing/
Las Orquedias de El Salvador Vol 3: Lamina 16 Hamer 1981 photo fide;
Orchid Genera and Species in Guatemala Archila, Szlachchetko, Chiron, Lipinska, Mystkowska and Bertolini 2018
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