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

Common Name The Lilac Ponthieva

Flower Size .5" [1.25 cm]

Found in Cauca and Valle de Cauca departments of Colombia and Cusco and Amazonas departments of Peru in shade of evergreen hard-leaved bushwood at elevations of 1700 to 2750 meters as a small sized, cool to cold 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 in the spring 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, acuminate, half as long as the ovary floral bracts and carrying rather small, lilac colored flowers.

Somewhat similar to Ponthieva microglossa but differs in the form of the petals and lip. In P lilacina the petals have truncate bases and the lip is broadly obtriangular with two thickened spots." Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2020

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Bot. Mus. Leafl. 9: 224 C Schweinfurth 1941

Orchids of Peru Vol 1: 122 Schweinfurth 1958

Orchids of Peru Vol 1: 123 fig 16 Schweinfurth 1958 drawing fide;

Peerj E6728 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2019

Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol 3: 104 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2020 drawing fide

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