Ponthieva lilacina C.Schweinf. 1941 TYPE Drawing © by Schweinfurth

Common Name The Lilac Ponthieva

Flower Size .5" [1.25 cm]

Found in Peru in evergreen hard-leaved bushwood at elevations of 900 to 1800 meters as a small sized, warm to cool growing terrestrial with fasciculate, lanose, slender-tuberous roots giving rise to 2 to 4, basally clustered, oval to oblong-elliptic to broadly oblanceolate, acute to shortly acuminate, more or less gradually narrowing below into the channeled, petiolate base leaves that blooms on an erect, thin, to 8.8" [2 cm] long, finely glandular-pubescent above and sometimes near the base, with one small, leaf near the base and 2 to 3 remote, tubular sheaths above, peduncle to 3.5" [8.6 cm] rachis to 3.6" [9 cm] long, very loose, few to several flowered inflorescence with lanceolate, acumnate, half as long as the ovary floral bracts and carrying rather small lilac colored flowers

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list, IPNI Orchids of Peru Vol 1 Schweinfurth 1958 drawing fide;

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