Ponthieva luegii Archila, Szlach. & Chiron 2015
Photo/TYPE drawing by © Fredy Archila
LATE EARLY
Common Name Lueg's Ponthieva [German Terrestrial enthusiast current]
Flower Size .1" [2.5 mm]
Found in Alta Verapaz department of Guatemala in cracks on karstic rocks as a mini-miniature sized lithophyte with a basal rosette of elliptic, acute leaves that blooms in the late fall and early winter on an erect, 2.4" [6 cm] long, 3 to 6 flowered inflorescence with glabrous much shorter than the ovary floral bracts and carrying white, glabrous flowers with a pink spot on the dorsal face of the sepals along the central nerve and a yellow spot on the base and a green spot on the lateral lobes
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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; * Richardiana XV 224 Archila, Szachetko, Chiron and Vasquez 2015 photo/drawing fide; Orchid Genera and Species in Guatemala Archila, Szlachchetko, Chiron, Lipinska, Mystkowska and Bertolini 2018
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