Pollardia obpiribulbon [Hags] Withner & Harding 2004
Photo by © Pastrana sub Eric Hagsater and The Epidendra Website
Photo by © Jay Pfahl
Photo by © Noble Bashor
Photos by © Robert Weyman Bussey
TYPE Drawing of Encyclia obpiribulbon By © Fritz Hamer
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Common Name The Inverted Pear-Shaped Pseudobulb Pollardia
Flower Size .72" [1.8 cm]
Found in Oaxaca and Guerrero states of Mexico in mixed pine/oak forests and in evergreen forests at elevations of 1300 to 2700 meters as a small sized, cool to cold growing, rambling epiphyte with inverted pear-shaped, slightly flattened pseudobulbs carrying 2 to 3 apical, narrowly elliptic-ligulate, acute leaves that blooms in the late summer and early spring on an apical, erect, arising on a mature pseudobulb, shorter or equal to the leaves, 4 to 8" [10 to 20 cm] long, racemose, 5 flowered inflorescence.
Photo by © Noble Bashor - Oaxaca to Jalisco Mx., 1372m elev., South end of Puerto Angel Rd., epiphytic on oaks, Hillside above stream,
Synonyms*Encyclia obpiribulbon Hágsater 1982; Prosthechea obpiribulbon [Hags] Higgins 1997
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
ORQUIDEA (Méx.) 8(2) MARZO 1982 as Encyclia obpiribulbon drawing/photo fide;
Phytologia 82: 379 W E Higgins 1997 publ. 1998 as Prosthechea obpiribulbon;
*The Cattleya and Their Relatives Vol 7 The Debateable Epidendrum Withner & Harding 2004 photo fide;
Algunas Orquideas de Oaxaca Suarez 2004 as Prosthechea obpiribulbon photo fide;
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