Orchidaceae
Ponthieva

Ponthieva formosa Schltr.

First published in Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 19: 12 (1923)
This species is accepted
The native range of this species is Mexico to Central America. It is a perennial and grows primarily in the wet tropical biome.

Distribution

Native to:

Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Mexico Central, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Panamá

Publications

POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:

  • Govaerts, R. (2003). World Checklist of Monocotyledons Database in ACCESS: 1-71827. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
  • Hammel, B.E. & al. (2003). Manual de Plantas de Costa Rica 3: 1-884. Missouri Botanical Garden Press, St. Louis.
  • Pupulin, F. (2010). Orchidaceae werckleanae: typification of Costa Rican orchid species described from collections by K. Wercklé. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 163: 111-154.

Kew Backbone Distributions

  • Hammel, B.E. & al. (2003). Manual de Plantas de Costa Rica 3: 1-884. Missouri Botanical Garden Press, St. Louis.

Other Data

Other Kew resources that provide information on this taxon:

Sources

  • Kew Backbone Distributions

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2023. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2023. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • Kew Science Photographs

    • Copyright applied to individual images