Ponthieva kraenzliniana (Szlach. & Kolan.) J.M.H.Shaw 2016 Rostrata group

TYPE Drawing by A Krol and P Baranow/ Szlach & Kolan. 2013

Common Name Jameson's Ponthieva [English Orchid collector of the type 1800's]

Flower Size .2" [5 mm]

Found in Cauca department of Colombia at elevaationd around 3200 meters as a medium sized, cold growing terrestrial with 2 to 3, on the lower part of the stem, lanceolate-elliptic, acute to obtuse, 1.2 to 1.6" [3 to 4 cm] long, petiolate base leaves the blooms in the winter on an erect, terminal, pubescent throughout, peduncle 11.2 to 35.4" [28 to 36 cm] long, provided with several, remote sheathing bracts, rachis to 3.6" [9 cm] long, cylindrical, sublaxly many flowered inflorescence with glabrous, lanceolate, acute to acuminate, , longer than the ovary floral bracts

"The specimens of P kraenzliniana are easily distinguished from Ponthieva micromystax and it is difficult to understand why the two herbarium sheets were marked by Krânzlin as P. micromystax. The leaves of p. kraenzliniana are distinctly petiolate (vs. subsessile in P. micromystax), the lateral sepals are obliquely ovate-triangular (vs. obliquely oblong-ovate), the petals are obliquely oblong to oblong-ovate (vs. obliquely triangular dolabriform), the lip is elliptic-obovate in outline (vs. suborbicular with linear apical lobe) and the lip claw is C-shaped (vs. claw linear)." Szlach & Kolan. 2013

Synonyms *Ocampoa kraenzliniana Szlach. & Kolan. 2013

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

Ann. Bot. Fenn. 50: 395 Szlach & Kolan. 2013 as Ocampoa kraenzliniana Drawing fide

*Orchid Rev. 124(1314, Suppl.): 39 J M H Shaw 2016

Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol 3: 84 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2020 drawing fide as Ocampoa kraenzliniana

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