Barbosella portillae Luer 2002 Photo by Ecuagenera and their Ecuador Orchid Website

Common Name or Meaning Portilla's Barbosella [Ecuadorian Orchid Nurseryman Current]

Flower Size .8" [2 cm]

Found in Ecuador at elevations around 1000 meters as a mini-miniature sized, warm growing epiphyte with erect, short ramicauls enveloped by 2 thin, loose, tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriacaeous, linear-obovate, obtuse, gradually narrowing below into the subpetiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring on an erect, slender, 3" [7.5 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence with a thin tubular floral bract.

As the flower ages it will have the totally free sepals begin to pull away from each oth3er to almost a 180 degree angle. This feature is unique to this species, any other Barboseela species that have divergent sepals with age have the sepals still attached for part of their margin.

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XIV Luer 2002