Pollardia hastata (Lindl.) Withner & P.A.Harding 2004
Photo by © Manfred Speckmaier
Photo by © Karl Senghas
Common Name The Lance Head Anacheilium
Flower Size 2" [5 cm]
Found in Guerrero and Oaxaca states of Mexico in pine-oak forests at elevations of 2400 to 2700 meters as a small sized, cold growing epiphyte with clustered, ellipsoid-ovoid, slightly flattened pseudobulbs carrying a single leaf that blooms in the spring on a terminal, erect, simple, 1 to 8 flowered racemose inflorescence
Similar to Pollardia ghiesbreghtiana and may be a synonym of but P hastata differs in the smaller plant, less atractive flowers, the slender column and the single leaved pseudobulb.
Synonyms Encyclia hastata (Lindl.) Dressler & G.E.Pollard 1971; *Epidendrum hastatum Lindl. 1841; Prosthechea hastata (Lindl.) W.E.Higgins 1997 publ. 1998; Pseudencyclia hastata (Lindl.) V.P.Castro & Chiron 2003
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
J. Bot. (Hooker) 3: 82 Hooker 1841 as Epidendrum hastatum;
The Genus Epidendrum Ames 1936 as Epidendrum hastatum;
Phytologia 21: 437 Dressler & Pollard 1971 as Encyclia hastata
Die Orchideen 3 Auflage Bd 1 Sonderabdruck aus Schlechter Lieferung 9 513 - 576 Brieger, Maatsch and Senghas 1977 as Hormidium hastatum;
Phytologia 82: 378 W E Higgins 1997 publ. 1998 as Prosthechea hastata;
Richardiana 4: 32 V P Castro & Chiron 2003 as Pseudencylia hastata;
The Cattleyas and Their Relatives, the Debateable Epidendrum Withner and Harding 2004 photo fide;
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