Ponthieva formosa Schltr 1923
Photos by © Walter Schug
Common Name The Beautiful Ponthieva
Flower Size .45" [1.1 cm]
Found in Mexico, El Salvador, Guatemala, Costa Rica and Panama at elevations of 1600 to 2500 meters as a miniature to small sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with a few erect to erect-patent, lanceolate to lanceolate-elliptic, acuminate, cuneate below into the pilose, channeled, petiolate base leaves that blooms in the winter and spring a very weak, terete, densely pubescent, erect to ascending, , 3.2" [8 cm] long, few [2 to 6] flowered inflorescence with elliptic, shortly acuminate, pilose floral bracts
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI Lankester's Epidendra Website CR ; *Repert. Sp. Nov. Regni. Veg. Beih. 19: 12. Costa Rica Schlechter 1923; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 1574 Atwood 1993 as P brenesii [not a synonym, explains why]; Manual de Plantas de Costa Rica Vol 3 Hammel, Grayum, Herrera and Zamora 2003; Guia de Orquideas de Chiapas Carlos Rommel Beutelspacher Baigts 2013 photo fide; Orchid Genera and Species in Guatemala Archila, Szlachchetko, Chiron, Lipinska, Mystkowska and Bertolini 2018 photo fide; Vanishing Beauty, Native Costa Rican Orchids Vol 2 Lacaena to Pteroglossa Pupulin 2020 photo fide
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