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Pollardia squalida [La Llave & Lex.] in ed.

Photo by © Timothy Choltco

Drawing of Prosthechea squalida By © Eric Hagsater/Soto

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Common Name The Dirty Brown Pollardia

Flower Size .75" [1.8 cm]

Found in Nayarit, Jalisco, Coloma, Michoacan, Guerrerro, Mexico, Moreles, Oaxaca and Vera Cruz states of Mexico at elevations of 500 to 2300 meters in various forest types as a warm to cold growing, small to medium sized epiphyte or ocassional lithophyte occuring on rocks on hillsides and ravines with ellipsoid-fusiform pseudobulbs that are spaced .72 to 1" [1.75 to 2.5 cm] apart and carrying 1 to 4, apical, narrowly ligular-elliptic leaves that blooms in the winter through summer on a terminal, arising on a mature pseudobulb, 4 to 6" [10 to 15 cm] long, racemose inflorescence and carrying five to twelve, inconspicuously fragrant flowers.

"Recognized by the fusiform to long-ovate, 2 to 4 leaves pseudobulbs, the loose racems with almost simultaneous small flowers with the spreading yellowish tepals lined with purple brown and the pale cream colored, trilobed lip with linear-oblong to triangular lateral lobes and flabellate-reniform, usually emarginate midlobe with 3 to 5 keels that are rugose, warty or smooth in the case of some plants from Michoacan. Closely related to Pollardia semiaptera but it has non-spreading petals held subparallel to the column and with wider tepals with broken lines only near the base." Soto, Salazar 2008

Synonyms Encyclia linkiana (Klotzsch) Schltr. 1918; Encyclia squalida [LaLlave & Lex] Soto Arenas & Salazar 2008; Epidendrum crispilabium A.Rich. & Galeotti 1845; Epidendrum linkeanum Klotzsch 1838; Epidendrum pastoris Link & Otto 1828; *Epidendrum squalidum Lex. 1825; Pollardia linkiana [Klotsch] Withner & Harding 2004; Prosthechea linkiana (Klotzsch) W.E.Higgins 1997 publ. 1998; Prosthechea squalida [La Llave & Lex.] Soto, Salazar 2008; Pseudencyclia linkiana (Klotzsch) V.P.Castro & Chiron 2003

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

Nov. Veg. Descr. 2(Orchid. Opusc.): 24 Lexara 1825 as Epidendrum squalidum;

Icon. Pl. Rar.: t. 12 Link & Otto 1828 as Epidendrum pastoris nom. illeg.

Allg. Gartenzeitung 6: 299 Klotsch 1838 as Epidendrum linkianum;

Ann. Sci. Nat., Bot., sér. 3, 3: 20 Lindley 1845 as Epidendrum crispilabium;

Bonplandia 4:214 Rchb.f 1856 as Epidendrum linkianum;

Beih. Bot. Centralbl. 36(2): 472 Schlechter 1918 as Encyclia linkiana

The Genus Epidendrum Ames 1936 as Epidendrum linkianum;

ORQUIDEA (Méx.) 9(2): 1984 as Encyclia linkiana drawing/photo fide;

Phytologia 82: 379 W E Higgins 1997 publ. 1998 as Prosthechea linkiana;

Flora Novo-Galaciana Vol 16 McVaugh 1985 as Encyclia linkiana;

Orquideas del Estado de Morelos ORQUÍDEA (MÉX.) VOLUMEN 16 NÚMERO ÚNICO enero 2002 as Prosthechea linkiana drawing/photo fide;