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Ponthieva
Sign in to savePonthieva 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
- KingdomPlantae
- PhylumTracheophyta
- ClassLiliopsida
- OrderAsparagales
- FamilyOrchidaceae
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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
Wikidata facts
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- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Cranichidinae
- Image
- Ponthieva racemosa.jpg
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- taxon common name
- Понтиева
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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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