Ponthieva garayana Dodson & R.Vásquez 1989 Diptera Group
Photo by J P Janovich
Photo by Leon Glicenstein
TYPE Drawing by R Vasquez/Dodson 1989
Drawing by W Nauray H & Bennett & Christenson 2001
Comparison Drawing between P elata, P diptera and P garayana
Drawing by Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2020
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EARLY
Common Name Garay's Ponthieva [American Orchid Enthusiast current]
Flower Size .6" [1.5 cm]
Found in Cundinamarca and Huila departments of Colombia and Bolivia in upper wet montane forests at elevations of 2900 to 3000 meters as a small sized, cool to cold growing terrestrial with 2 to several, rosulate, erect, ovate, short acuminate, abruptly contracted into the cuneate, elongate, petiolate base leaves that blooms in the spring and early summer on an erect, glabrous to sparsely pilose, to 14" [to 35 cm] long, several to 12 flowered inflorescence with 3 distant infundibular bracts and a tubular floral bract and carrying non-resupinate flowers
The occurence of P garayana is reported by Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2020
CAUTION The determinations of this group [ P elata P diptera, P garayana, P tuerckheimii] are very difficult to work with photos as there are just not enough angles of the flowers to get the lip and petals exactly right, see comparison drawing above
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
*Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Series II Orchids of Bolivia plate 0365 Dodson & Vasquez 1989 drawing fide;
Icones Orchidacearum Peruviarum plate 0748 Bennett & Christenson 2001 drawing fide;
AOS Bulletin Vol 80 #12 2011 photo fide;
Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol 3: 103 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2020 drawing fide
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