Ponthieva dunstervillei Foldats 1968 Drawing by © Foldats

Common Name Dunsterville's Ponthieva [American Botanist in Venezuela 1900's]

Flower Size .4" [1 cm]

Found in Tachira state of Venezuela at elevations around 2500 to 2700 meters as a small sized, cold growing epiphyte and probable terrestrial with fleshy, fasciculate, somewhat pubescent roots giving rise to 4 to 5, in a basal rosette, narrowly oblanceolate, acute, attenuate below into the short, conduplicate pseudopetiolate base leaves that blooms on an erect, peduncle to 12" [30 cm] long, densely glandular-pilose, provided witha single clasping sheathing bract, rachis to 2" [5 cm] long, successively few, several flowered inflorescence with ovate, acute, much shorter than the ovary floral bracts and carrying greenish, larger flowers.

Similar to Ponthieva inaudita but P dunstervillei differs in the long, densely pilose sepals and the different lip.

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Acta Bot. Venez. 3: 396 Foldats 1968 drawing fide

Flora de Venezuela Volumen 15 primera parte 1 Foldats 1969 drawing fide;

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