Ponthieva hermiliae L.Valenz. 2012
Photo/TYPE Drawing by © Luis Valenzuela Gamarra
Common Name Hermila's Ponthieva [Peruvian Gina Hermila Gamarra Muñiz, the author’s mother current]
Flower Size .4" [1 cm]
Found in Pasco department of Peru in constantly foggy, premontane forest at elevations around 1400 meters as a medium sized, cool growing terrestrial with spathulate-elliptic, flexuous, covered by clavate, glandular hairs, conduplicate below into the base leaves that blooms on a terminal, erect, provided with 3, short bracts, 19.6" [48 cm] long, successively 5 to 7, many flowered inflorescence with hairy, half as long as the ovary floral bracts.
"Ponthieva hermiliae is similar to P. pilosissima (Senghas) Dodson, but differs in exauriculate base of the lip (vs. with distinct retrorese lobes), the shape of the callus on the lip (rounded vs. excise), and the petals distinctly callose at the base, faintly striped with light brown (vs. obscurely callose, boldly striped with redish brown). Furthermore, the sepals of P. hermiliae are subsimilaar in size, whereas in P. pilosissima the dorsal sepal is much smaller (Senghas 1989)." Gamarra 2012
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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Lankesteriana 12[3]: 161- 164 Luis Valenzuela Gamarra 2012 drawing/photo fide
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