Ponthieva villosa Lindl. 1845 Andicola group
Photos by © Karremans and The Epidendra Orchid Website
Drawing by © Suare/Calaway Dodson
Common Name The Shaggy Ponthieva
Flower Size .4" [1 cm]
Found in Colombia, Pastaza province of Ecuador and Peru in wet montane forests at elevations around 1000 to 2200 meters as a small sized, warm to cold growing terrestrial with 3 to 4, basal, villose on both sides, oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, soft leaves that blooms in the fall on an erect to arcuate, shoreter than the leaves, villose throughout, to 6" [15 cm] long overall, rachis to 4.2" [to 10.5 cm] long, loosely few flowered inflorescence and has ovate-elliptic, acute, concave, villose dorsally floral bracts.
"Distinguished by the villose plant from the leaves to the back of the sepals, the lateral sepals nearly free and the acute to obtuse petals." Dodson 1989
Kew includes Ponthieva brenesii as a synonym of P Villosa, but I have kept them separate so far.
Synonyms Ponthieva crinita Garay 1978
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* G.Bentham, Pl. Hartw.: 155 Lindley 1845
Flora of Ecuador No 9 225[1] Garay 1978 as P crinita drawing fide;
Flora of Ecuador No 9 225[1] Garay 1978 drawing fide;
Icones Plantarum Tropicarum Plate 574 Dodson 1989 drawing fide;
Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 4 2003 Dodson photo fide;
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