Ponthieva villosa Lindl. 1845
Photos by © Karremans and The Epidendra Orchid Website
Common Name The Shaggy Ponthieva
Flower Size
Found in Colombia, Ecuador and Peru at elevations around 1000 to 2200 meters as a small sized, warm to cold growing terrestrial with 3 to 4, basal, villose on both sides, oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, soft leaves that blooms in the fall on an erect to arcuate, shoreter than the leaves, villose throughout, to 6" [15 cm] long overall, rachis to 4.2" [to 10.5 cm] long, loosely few flowered inflorescence and has ovate-elliptic, acute, concave, villose dorsally floral bracts.
Synonyms Ponthieva crinita Garay 1978
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Pl Hartw. 155. 1845; Flora of Ecuador No 9 225[1] Garay 1978 as P crinita drawing fide; Flora of Ecuador No 9 225[1] Garay 1978 drawing fide; Icones Plantarum Tropicarum Plate 574 Dodson 1989 drawing fide; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 4 2003 dodson photo fide; Lankesteriana 12[3]: 274 Karremans and Bogarin 2014 drawing fide
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