Pollardia pringlei [Rolfe ex Ames] Withner & Harding 2004
Photo by © Robert Weyman Bussey
Drawing by © Oakes Ames
Drawing by © R Jimenez
Common Name Pringle's Pollardia [English Collector of Mexican Orchids 1800's]
Flower Size 1" [2.5 cm]
Found in Michoacan, Mexico, Morelos, Guerrero and Oaxaca states of Mexico, as a miniature to small sized, warm to cool growing epiphytic species found at elevations of 1800 to 2500 meters in wet pine-oak forests with clustered, ovoid-pyriform pseudobulbs carrying 1 or 2 apical, erect to arcuate, widely linear, ensiform or narrowly elliptic-ensiform, acute to subobtuse, minutely apiculate, coriaceous, dark green, basally conduplicate leaves that blooms in the spring on an apical, erect, 2.8 to 6.4" [7 to 16 cm] long, racemose, 1 to 4 flowered inflorescence with triangular-ovate, acuminate, shorter than the pedicel floral bracts and carrying descending, resupinate, non-fragrant flowers.
"This species is the only Prosthechea with a transversely oblong-elliptic lip. The combination of small plants, filiform peduncle, 1 to 4 flowered racemes, olive-green to brown, reflexed tepals, and the white lip dotted with purple, are also diagnostic. It is closely related to Pollardia hastata and Pollardia ghiesbreghtiana [A. , which have larger plants and flowers with non-reflexed tepals." E. Hágsater & M. Soto 2008
Synonyms Encyclia pringlei (Rolfe ex Ames) Schltr. 1918; *Epidendrum pringlei Rolfe ex Ames 1904; Hormidium pringlei [Rolfe ex Ames] Brieger 1977; Prosthechea pringlei [Rolfe ex Ames] Higgins 1997; Pseudencyclia pringlei (Rolfe) V.P.Castro & Chiron 2003
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington 17: 120 Rolfe 1904 as Epidendrum pringlei;
Studies in the Family Orchidaceae Vol 1 Ames 1905 as Epidendrum pringlei
Beih. Bot. Centralbl. 36(2): 473 Schlechter 1918 as Encyclia pringlei;
Studies in the Family Orchidaceae Vol 1 Ames 1905 as Epidendrum pringlei drawing fide;
The Genus Epidendrum Ames 1936 as Epidendrum pringlei;
Die Orchideen 3 Auflage Bd 1 Sonderabdruck aus Schlechter Lieferung 9 513 - 576 Brieger, Maatsch and Senghas 1977 as Hormidium pringlei;
Phytologia 82: 376 W E Higgins 1997 publ. 1998 as Prosthechea pringlei;
Orquideas del Estado de Morelos ORQUÍDEA (MÉX.) VOLUMEN 16 NÚMERO ÚNICO enero 2002 as Prosthechea pringlei drawing/photo fide;
Richardiana 4: 33 V P Castro & Chiron 2003 as Pseudencylia pringlei;
*The Cattleyas and Their Relativers Vol 7 The Debateable Epidendrum Withner & Harding 2004 photo fide;
Icones Orchidacearum fascile 10 plate 1071 Hagsater & Soto 2008 drawing fide
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