Ponthieva gimana Dodson 2003
Photo by © and The Ecuagenera Photo Website
TYPE Photo by Alexander Hirtz
Common Name The Gima Ponthieva [An area of central Ecuador]
Flower Size .6" [1.5 cm]
Found in Azuay province of Ecuador in open shady areas in highland rainforests at elevations of 3000 meters as a small to medium sized, cold growing terrestrial with a short erect stem enveloped by leaf bases and carrying 3 to 5, subrosulate, thin, villous, elliptic, acute, cuneate below in to the elongate, petilolate base leaves that blooms on an erect, villous, peduncle to 12.8" [32 cm] long, provided with a small, leaflike sheathing bract, and another below the raceme, rachis to 1.2" [3 cm] long, few flowered inflorescence and a bract below the raceme.
Similar to Ponthieva dunstervillei but differs in the more slender plant and the lamina of the petals are obliquely oblong-triangular with a small tooth-like callus at the junction with the elongate claw.
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
*Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 4: 882 Dodson 2003
Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 4: 816 #1907 Dodson 2003 photo fide;
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