Ponthieva bicornuta C.Schweinf. 1951

Drawing by © Pastorelli, Bennett & Christenson

Common Name The Two Horned Ponthieva

Flower Size .4" [1 cm]

Found in Junin department of Peru on shrubby grassy slopes at elevations of 2300 to 2500 meters as a small to medium sized, cold growing terrestrial with fleshy fasciculate roots giving rise to a basal rosette of 3 to 6, elliptic, acute, glabrous, petiolate base leaves that blooms in the summer on a terminal, erect, peduncle to 9.6 to 10.4" " [24 to 27 cm] long, provided with a basally clasping apical half free, acute sheathing bract and 3 to 5, close, tublar sheathing bracts above, rachis 5.6 to 8" [14 to 20 cm] long, several to many flowered inflorescence with ovate, acute, much shorter than the ovary floral bracts and carrying non-resupinate flowers with externally green, white internally sepals, white petals and column and a white branching with green veined lip.

"Distinguished by the glabrous leaevs and the bifid callus at the base of the labellum." Bennett & Christenson 1998

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI

* Bot. Mus. Leafl. 15: 5 C Schweinfurth 1951

Icones Orchidacearum Peruviarum Plate 555 Bennett & Christenson 1998 drawing fide;

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