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Orchid Species: Ponera australis

Kew currently accepted name is Nemaconia striata

Ponera australis is an orchid species identified by Cogn. in C.F.P.von Martius & auct. suc. (eds.) in 1898. Culture information and photos for this orchid are commonly detailed under the currently accepted name of Nemaconia striata.
Genus
Ponera (Pon.)
Grex
australis
Parents
Species
Author
Cogn. in C.F.P.von Martius & auct. suc. (eds.)
Year
1898
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ORIGIN: Found in the southeast Atlantic forest of Brazil as well as Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Ecuador, Bolivia and Venezuela in lowland tropical forests, cloud forests and savannahs as a medium sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte, in open woodlands and rainforests, or lithophyte on calcareous cliffs up to elevations of 980 to 1700 [3000] meters.

DESCRIPTION: A medium sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte, in open woodlands and rainforests, or lithophyte on calcareous cliffs up to elevations of 980 to 1700 [3000] meters with slender stems that are leafy towards the apex and are subtended by verrucose leaf sheaths carrying, distichous, deciduous, linear-lanceolate, tapering to a obliquely bilobed apex and blooming in the fall on a terminal or axillary, solitary or fasciculate, sessile inflorescence that is enveloped basally by several conspicuous bracts and suborbicular-ovate to oblong, verrucose floral bracts all occurring after the leaves fall.

FLOWER SIZE: 2/5 inch [1 cm] -- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
Other Names
Genus Name Genus Grex Name Year Author
Add+ Nemaconia Nemaconia striata 2007 (Lindl.) Van den Berg
Add+ Nemaconia Nemaconia australis 2007 (Cogn.) Van den Berg
Add+ Ponera Pon geraensis 1907 Barb.Rodr.
Add+ Ponera Pon macroglossa 1852 Rchb.f.
Add+ Scaphyglottis Scgl macroglossa 1918 (Rchb.f.) Schltr.
Add+ Sobralia Sob polyphylla 1920 Kraenzl.
Add+ Ponera Pon striata 1842 Lindl.
Most awarded/recent cultivars: Pon. striata 'John Kafka' (2012) Pon. striata 'Estuardo' (2002) Pon. striata 'Brian' (2000)
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