Ponthieva weberbaueri Schltr. 1921 Rostrata group

TYPE Drawing © by Schlechter

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Common Name Weberbauer's Ponthieva [German Botanist in Peru 1900's]

Flower Size

Found in Cusco department of Peru at elevations around 2000 meters as a small sized, cool to cold growing terrestrial with 3 to 4, erect-patent, glabrous, elliptic, cuneate below into the petioalte base leaves that blooms in the late fall and early winter on an erect, thin, strict to substrict, to 4 to 8" [10 to 20 cm] long, provided with a few closely embracing, acuminate, spaced sheaths, rachis to 4" [10 cm] long, apparently subsecund, laxly several flowered inflorescence .

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 9:58 Schlechter 1921;

Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 57: Taf 1078 # 420 Schlechter 1929 drawing fide;

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