Pollardia pterocarpa [Lindley] Withner & Harding 2004
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Common Name The Winged Seedpod Pollardia
Flower Size 3/4" [2 cm]
Mexico on wooded slopes of western slope in oak trees at elevations of 550 to 2200 meters as a medium sized, warm to cold growing epiphyte and sometimes lithophyte, to the with widely spaced, stalked, ovoid, somewhat flattened pseudobulbs partially enveloped basally by 2, scarious sheaths and carrying 2 to 3, apical, narrowly linear, acute, conduplicate below and basally clasping leaves that blooms variably throughout the year on an apical, erect, arising on a mature pseudobulb as a new one develops, with basal, scarious, triangular sheaths, the length of the leaves or less, 6" [16 cm] long, racemose, simultaneously 4 to 10 flowered inflorescence.
" This species is recognized by the long rhizomes, narrow, compresscd pseudobulbs, the inflorescence slightly longer than the leaves, the suequally 3 lobed lip with the mid-lobe strongly deflexed, the pubescent callus just in front of the column apex and the conspicuous reddish lines near the center of the disc. The closest relative is Pollardia obpiribulbon but with broader, pear-like, strongly compressed pseudobulbs, inflorescence shorter than the leaves and the lip obscurely 3-lobed, with the mid-lobe spreading, not deflexed, and much larger than the lateral lobes, with the purplish lines covering most of the basal half of the lip." Eric Hágsater &. Gerardo A. Salazar 1990
Synonyms Encyclia pterocarpa (Lindl.) Dressler 1961; Epidendrum cinnamomeum A. Rich. & Galeotti 1845; *Epidendrum pterocarpum Lindl. 1841; Prosthechea pterocarpa (Lindl.) W.E. Higgins 1997; Pseudencyclia pterocarpa (Lindl.) V.P.Castro & Chiron 2003
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
J. Bot. (Hooker) 3: 82 Lindley 1841 as Epidendrum pterocarpum;
Ann. Sci. Nat., Bot., sér. 3, 3: 19 A Rich. & Galeotti 1845 as Epidendrum cinnamoneum;
Bonplandia 4:214 Rchb.f 1856 as Epidendrum pterocarpum;
The Genus Epidendrum Ames 1936 as Epidendrum pterocarpum;
Brittonia 13: 265 Dressler 1961 as Encyclia pterocarpa;
ORQUIDEA (Méx.) 8(2) MARZO 1982 drawing/photo fide
Flora Novo-Galaciana Vol 16 McVaugh 1985 as Encyclia pterocarpa;
An Introdution to the Orchids of Mexico Wiard 1987 as Encyclia pterocarpa photo fide;
Icones Orchidacearum I Plate 21 Hagsater & Salazar 1990 drawing fide;
Phytologia 82: 380 W E Higgins 1997 publ. 1998 as Prosthechea pterocarpa;
Richardiana 4: 33 V P Castro & Chiron 2003 as Pseudencylia
*The Cattleya and Their Relatives Vol 7 The Debateable Epidendrum Withner & Harding 2004 photo fide;
AOS Bulletin Vol 85 #3 2016 as Epidendrum pterocarpum drawing fide;
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