Ponthieva nigricans Schltr. 1917

TYPE Drawing by © Schlechter

Full Shade Cool

Common Name The Black Lip Ponthieva

Flower Size

Found in Pichinche province of Ecuador without precise locality as a small sized, cool? growing terrestrial 2 to 3 basal, obliquely elliptic, acute, basally cuneate below into the petiolate base leaves that blooms on a terminal, erect to arcuate, provided with a few bract-like, acuminate sheaths, baslly glabrous glandose pilose above, racemose, loosely, to 15 flowered inflorescence with lanceolate, acuminate, glandulose-pilose, shorter than the pedilcellate ovary floral bracts.

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora of Ecuador #225 [1] Harling Orchidaceae Garay 1978; LANKESTERIANA 19(2).125 - 193 Ossenbach & Jenny 2019 drawing fide;

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