Ponthieva campestris (Liebm.) Garay 1995

TYPE Collection sheet of P parviflora

EARLIER

Common Name The Savannah Ponthieva

Flower Size

Found in Vera Cruz and Campeche states of Mexico in savannahs as a small to medium sized, hot growing terrestrial with tuberous roots giving rise to a rosette of 5 or so, elliptic-lanceolate to oblanceolate, membraneous, acute, gradually narrowing below into the petiolate base leaves that blooms in the earlier winter on an erect, slender, peduncle 4 to 12" [10 to 30 cm] long, provided with 3 to 8, scarious, tubular, acuminate, glabrous below, finely glandular-pubescent above sheathing bracts, rachis to 4 to 6" [10 to 15 cm] long, loosely 23 + flowered inflorescence with lanceolate, acuminate, externally pubescent, shorter than the ovary floral bracts and carrying very small flowers for the genus.

P campestris is unusual for the genus in being a rather tall species with a slender habit and very small flowers. It is somewhat similar to Ponthieva parvula but it is vegetatively much larger with dissimilar petals which are narrowed above and with a distinctly three lobed lip, It differs from Ponthieva brittoniae in its taller habit, in its much smaller flowers and in the venation of the petals and in the dissimilar lip." Ames & C.Schweinf. 1936

Synonyms *Androchilus campestris Liebm. 1847; Liparis androchilus Schltr. 1918; Ponthieva parviflora Ames & C.Schweinf. 1936

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

Förh. Skand. Naturf. Möte 4: 197 Liebm 1847 as Androchilus campestris

Beih. Bot. Centralbl., Abt. 2. 36: 441 Schlechter 1918 as Liparis androchilus

Bot. Mus. Leafl. 4: 39 Ames & C.Schweinf. 1936 as Ponthieva parviflora

* Lindleyana 10: 129 Garay 1995

Lindleyana 10: 127 Garay 1995 collection sheet fide

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