Pollardia greenwoodiana (Aguirre-Olav.) Withner & P.A.Harding 2004
Photo by © Aguirre-Olav.
Photo by © Weyman Bussey
Drawing By © R Jimenez/Aguirre-Olav.)
Common Name Greenwood's Pollardia [Mexican Orchid Enthusiast current]
Flower Size 1.28 to 1.44" [3.2 to 3.6 cm]
Found in Oaxaca state of Mexico in montane forests at elevations around 2020 meters as a medium sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte with reverse pear-shaped, to elliptic pseudobulbs carrying 2 apical, narrowly elliptic-lanceolate, acute, basally clasping leaves that blooms at most any time of the year on a terminal, 10" [25 cm] long, 6 to 8 successively flowered, racemose inflorescence.
This species is very similar to Pollardia semiaptera but differs in the pseudobulb shape and the lateral lobes of the lip that are narrower and curved differently in respect to the column.
Synonyms *Encyclia greenwoodiana Aguirre-Olav. 1992; Prosthechea greenwoodiana (Aguirre-Olav.) W.E.Higgins 1998
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Orquídea (Méx.) 12(2): 205-208. Aguirre-Olavarrieta 1992 as Encyclia greenwoodiana. photo/drawing fide;
Phytologia 82: 378 W E Higgins 1997 publ. 1998 as Prosthechea greenwoodiana;
Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1C lieferung 42 - 43 pg 2626 - 2762 Brieger 2001 as Encyclia greenwoodiana;
*Cattleyas and their Relatives The Debatable Epidendrum 2004
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