Ponthieva schaffneri (Rchb.f.) E.W.Greenw.1990

Photo/drawing by © E W Greenwood and The AMO Herbaria Website

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Common Name Schaffner's Ponthieva [German Physician and Orchid Enthusaist 1800's]

Flower Size .2" [5 mm]

Found in Chihuahua, Sinaloa, Durango, Nayarit, Jalisco, Colima, Michoacan, Mexico, DF, Guerrero, Oaxaca, Nuevo Leon, Tamaulipas, Queretaro, Guanajuato, Puebla, Vera Cruz and Chiapas states of Mexico and Guatemala in crevasses of rocky areas in seasonally dry, pine oak forests at elevations of 1500 to 2700 meters as a miniature to medium sized, deciduous, warm to cold growing terrestrial/lithophyte with an erect, usually leafless at flowering stem, carrying 2 to 4, basal, arching-extended, ovate-elliptic to suborbicular, acute to obtuse, conduplicate below into the narrowly to widely petiolate leaves, that blooms in the fall on an erect, more or less cylindrical, 1.2 to 5" [3 to 12.5 cm] long, laxly to moderately dense, 13 to 40 flowered inflorescence with as long as the pedicel, subovate when flattened, acute, 3-nerved floral bracts carrying non-resupinate flowers

Synonyms *Cranichis schaffneri Rchb.f.1855; Ponthieva angustipetala E.W.Greenw. 1986

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI Bonplandia Rchb.f 1856 as Cranichis schaffnerii; Orchids of Guatemala & Belize Ames & Correll 1985 as Cranichis schaffneri; ORQUIDEA (Méx.) 10(1): 9 Greenwood 1986 as P angustipetala drawing/photo fide; Orquídea (Mexico City), n.s., 12: 55 Greenwood 1990 drawing fide; Orquideas del Estado de Morelos ORQUÍDEA (MÉX.) VOLUMEN 16 NÚMERO ÚNICO enero 2002 drawing/photo fide; Icones Orchidacearum 5-6 Plate 647 Hagsater & Soto 2002 drawing ok no pubescence on sepal back; Orchid Genera and Species in Guatemala Archila, Szlachchetko, Chiron, Lipinska, Mystkowska and Bertolini 2018

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