Pollardia campylostalix [Rchb.f] Withner & Harding 2004
Photo by © Eric Hunt
Photo by © Daniel Jimenez
Photo by Jeff and Patricia Harding
Drawing By © Atwood
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Common Name The Bent-Column Foot Pollardia
Flower Size 1" [2.5 cm]
Found in Guatemala, Chiriqui province of Panama and Costa Rica in lower montane and disturbed cloud forests found at elevations of 1200 to 2000 meters as a medium sized, cool growing epiphyte with an ovate-elliptic, laterally compressed, unifoliate pseudobulb subtended by a papery bract and carrying a single oblong to elliptic leaf that blooms in the winter and spring on an apical, erect, arising on a newly matured pseudobulb, occasionally branched, 4 to 14" [10 to 35 cm] long, few to many flowered inflorescence with lanceolate, acuminate, scarious, shorter to as long as the ovary and carrying resupinate flowers that do not open well.
Synonyms Encyclia campylostalix (Rchb. f.) Schltr. 1922; *Epidendrum campylostalix Rchb. f. 1852; Prosthechea campylostalyx (Rchb. f.) W.E. Higgins 1997; Pseudencyclia campylostalix (Rchb.f.) V.P.Castro & Chiron 2003
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Lankester's Epidendra Website CR as Protheschea campylostalix;
Bot. Zeitung. Berlin 10(42): 730. 1852 as Epidendrum campylostalix;
Xenia Orchidaceae 435 Rchb.f 1862 as Epidendrum campylostalix;
Refugium Botanicum Reichenbach 1869 as Epidendrum campylostalix
Refugium Botanicum Reichenbach 1869 as Epidendrum campylostalixdrawing fide;
Repert. Sp. Nov. Regni. Veg. Beih. 17: 45. Panama Schlechter 1922 as Encyclia campylostalix;
Repert. Sp. Nov. Regni. Veg. Beih. 19: 130. Costa Rica Schlechter 1923 as Epidendrum campylostalix;
The Genus Epidendrum Ames 1936 as Epidendrum campylostalix;
The Orchids of Panama L.O. Williams & P Allen 1946 as Epidendrum campylostalix;
AOS Bulletin Vol 37 # 6 1968 as Epidendrum campylostalix;
Die Orchideen 3 Auflage Bd 1 Sonderabdruck aus Schlechter Lieferung 9 513 - 576 Brieger, Maatsch and Senghas 1977 as Encyclia camylostalix;
Orchids Travel By Air A Pictoral Safari Mulder, Mulder-Roelfsema and Schuiteman 1990 as Encyclia campylostalix photo fide;
Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 1422 Atwood 1992 drawing fide;
Phytologia 82: 377 W E Higgins 1997 publ. 1998 as Prosthechea campylostalix;
Richardiana 4: 32 V P Castro & Chiron 2003 as Pseudencylic campylostalix;
Manual de Plantas de Costa Rica Vol 3 Hammel, Grayum, Herrera and Zamora 2003 as Prosthechea campylostalix;
*The Cattleyas and Their Relatives, the Debateable Epidendrum Withner and Harding 2004 photo fide;
Orchid Genera and Species in Guatemala Archila, Szlachchetko, Chiron, Lipinska, Mystkowska and Bertolini 2018 as Pseudencylia campylostalix;
Vanishing Beauty, Native Costa Rican Orchids Vol 2 Lacaena to Pteroglossa Pupulin 2020 as Prosthechea campylostalix photo fide;
Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol IV:417 Szlatchetko & Kolanowska 2023 as Pseudencylia campylostalix drawing fide
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