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Ponthieva

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Ponthieva is a genus in the orchid family (Orchidaceae), commonly known as the shadow witch. They are named after Henry de Ponthieu, an English merchant of Huguenot ancestry who sent West Indian plant collections to Sir Joseph Banks in 1778.

Species

GENUS

  1. KingdomPlantae
  2. PhylumTracheophyta
  3. ClassLiliopsida
  4. OrderAsparagales
  5. FamilyOrchidaceae
Native toAlabama, Argentina Northwest, Bahamas, Bolivia, Brazil North, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador
Observations recorded6,849

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Museum specimens

Specimen records
271
With media
179
Family
Orchidaceae
Collections
SEL, NY, CAS, ANSP, INECOL, IBUNAM
Recorded in
Ecuador, Bolivia, Peru, Colombia, Mexico, Costa Rica

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Ponthieva is a genus in the orchid family (Orchidaceae), commonly known as the shadow witch. They are named after Henry de Ponthieu, an English merchant of Huguenot ancestry who sent West Indian plant collections to Sir Joseph Banks in 1778.

Ponthieva is widely distributed in the southeastern United States, the West Indies, and Latin America from Mexico to Argentina.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ponthieva” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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