SUBGENUS: decaloba
SUPERSECTION: decaloba
SECTION: decaloba
GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION OR ORIGIN:
From eastern Bolivia to central and northern Brazil.
MINIMUM TEMPERATURE: 8 °C
IDEAL MINIMUM TEMPERATURE: 10 °C
SYNONYMS: P. tristis Mart. ex Mast.
ETYMOLOGY: Dedicated to the Austrian botanist Johann Baptist Emanuel Pohl (1782-1934).
He participated in an expedition to Brazil and made a large herbarium.