Pollardia varicosa [Lindl.] Withner & Harding 2004
Photos by © Pupulin, Used under permission of Epidendra Website CR
Drawing by Fritz Hamer
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Common Name The Veined Pollardia
Flower Size to about 1" [to about 2.5 cm]
Endemic to Jalisco, Michoacan, Guerrero, Morelos, Oaxaca, Vera Cruz, Puebla, and Hidalgo states of Mexico, this small sized, cool to cold growing epiphytic, terrestrial or lithophytic species occurs at 1500 to 2800 meters in elevations in wet forests of oak and pine-oak with ovoid-fusiform to ovoid-elliptic pseudobulbs that extend apically to a thin neck and carrying 2 to 3, apical, elliptic-oblong, to elliptic-lanceolate, acute or subacute leaves and has an inflorescence that is apical, erect or arching from 1 1/2 to 20" [75 to 80 cm] long, simple and has from 4 to 25 fragrant, longlasting, glossy textured flowers that blooms mostly in the winter or summer.
Chiapas Mx. and Honduras, 1370 to 2400 meters in elev., Montebello Lakes area, terrestrial in shade of large rocks.
Synonyms Encyclia chiriquensis (Rchb. f.) Schltr. 1918; Encyclia phymatoglossa (Rchb. f.) Schltr. 1918; Encyclia varicosa (Bateman ex Lindl.) Schltr. 1918; Encyclia varicosa subs lieobulbon [Hkr.] Dressler & Pollard 1971; Encyclia varicosa var. leiobolbon (Hook.) M.Wolff & O.Gruss 2007; Epidendrum chiriquense Rchb. f. 1852; Epidendrum leiobulbon Hook. f. 1841; Epidendrum lunaeanum A. Rich. ex Lindl. 1853; Epidendrum phymatoglossum Rchb. f. 1852; Epidendrum quadratum Klotzsch 1850; Epidendrum ramirezi Gojon Sanchez 1930; *Epidendrum varicosum Bateman ex Lindl. 1838; Prosthechea varicosa (Bateman ex Lindl.) W. E. Higgins 1997; Pseudencyclia varicosa (Bateman ex Lindl.) V.P.Castro & Chiron 2003
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Lankester's Epidendra Website CR;
Edwards's Bot. Reg. 24(Misc.): 30 Lindley 1838 as Epidendrum varicosum;
J. Bot. (Hooker) 3: 308 Lindley 1841 as Epidendrum leiobolbon;
J. Bot. (Hooker) 3: 308 Lindley 1841 as Epidendrum leiobolbon drawing fide;
Allg. Gartenzeitung 18: 402 Klotsch 1850 as Epidendrum quadratum;
Bot. Zeitung (Berlin) 10: 730 Rchb.f 1852 as Epidendrum chiriquense;
Bot. Zeitung (Berlin) 10: 731 Rchb.f 1852 as Epidedndrum phymatoglossum;
Fol. Orchid. 3: 23 A Rich. ex Lindley 1853 as Epidendrum lunaeanum;
Xenia Orchidaceae Rchb.f 1858 as Epidendrum varicosum
Xenia Orchidaceae Rchb.f 1858 as Epidendrum varicosum drawing fide;
Xenia Orchidaceae Rchb.f 1858 as Epidendrum phymatoglossum
Xenia Orchidaceae Rchb.f 1858 as Epidendrum phymatoglossum drawing fide;
Xenia Orchidaceae Rchb.f 1854 as Epidendrum chiriquense
Xenia Orchidaceae Rchb.f 1854 as Epidendrum chiriquense drawing fide;
Die Orchideen Schlechter 1915 as Epidendrum varicosum;
Beih. Bot. Centralbl. 36(2): 474 Schlechter 1918 as Encyclia varicosa;
Beih. Bot. Centralbl. 36(2): 472 Schlechter 1918 as Epidendrum chiriquensis;
Beih. Bot. Centralbl. 36(2): 472 Schlechter 1918 as Epidendrum phymatoglossa;
Mejores Orquideas Mexico: 46 Sanchez 1930 as Epidendrum ramirezii;
The Genus Epidendrum Ames 1936 as EPidendrum varicosum;
The Orchids of Panama L.O. Williams & P Allen 1946 as Epidendrum varicosum;
Ceiba Vol 5 No 1 L O Williams 1956 as Epidendrum varicosum;
Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965 as Epidendrum varicosum;
Phytologia 21: 438 Dressler & Pollard 1971 as Encyclia varicosa subsp leiobulbon;
Las Orquedias De El Salvador Vol 1 Hamer 1974 as Epidendrum varicosum drawing/photo fide;
Las Orquedias de El Salvador Vol 3 Hamer 1981 as Epidendrum varicosum drawing fide;
Flora Novo-Galaciana Vol 16 McVaugh 1985 as Encyclia varicosa;
Selbyana Vol 10 Orchids of Central America Hamer 1988 as Encyclia varicosa drawing good;
Phytologia 82: 381 W E Higgins 1997 publ. 1998 as Prosthechea varicosa;
Orquideas del Estado de Morelos ORQUÍDEA (MÉX.) VOLUMEN 16 NÚMERO ÚNICO enero 2002 as Prosthechea varicosa drawing/photo fide;
Manual de Plantas de Costa Rica Vol 3 Hammel, Grayum, Herrera and Zamora 2003 as Prosthechea varicosa;
Richardiana 4: 33 V P Castro & Chiron 2003 as Pseudencylia varicosa;
*Cattleya and Their Relatives Vol 7 Withner & Harding 2004 photo fide;
Algunas Orquideas de Oaxaca Suarez 2004 as Prosthechea varicosa photo fide;
Orchid. Atlas: 148 M.Wolff & O.Gruss 2007 as Encyclia varicosa var leiobolbon;
AOS Bulletin Vol 77 No 9 2008 photo as Pseudoencyclia [sic] varicosa;
Guia de Orquideas de Chiapas Carlos Rommel Beutelspacher Baigts 2013 as Prosthechea varicosa photo fide;
Orchid Genera and Species in Guatemala Archila, Szlachchetko, Chiron, Lipinska, Mystkowska and Bertolini 2018 as Pseudencyclia varicosa
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