Porroglossum lycinum Luer 1980 SUBGENUS Porroglossum SECTION Porroglossum
Photo by Ron Parsons.
TYPE Drawing by Carl Luer
Common Name The Wolf-Like Porroglossum
Flower Size .6" [1.5 cm]
Found in Amazonas department of Peru in cloud forests at elevations around 2100 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cold growing epiphyte with erect, slender ramicauls enveloped by 2 to 3 loose, white, tubukar sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, subverrucose, lightly reticulate, obovate to ellitical, obtuse, gradually narrowing below into the elongate, petiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring on a suberect, to horizontal, glabrous, 3.2 to 4.2" [8 to 10.5 cm] long, congested, successively few flowered inflorescence with a few well spaced bracts arising from low on the ramicaul, and imbricating, tubular floral bracts.
"Recognized by the small, spathulate, lightly reticulated, subverrucose leaves and a proportionally large, yellow flower with broad, gradulally narrowing, brown, forwardly directed apices. The callus of the blade of the lip is low and glabrous while the truncate apex of the blade is spiculate-pubescent." Luer 1991
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; * Phytologia Vol 46 377 Miscellaneous New Species in the Pleurothallidinae Luer 1980; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol IV Systematics of Acostaea, Condylago and Porroglossum Luer 1987 drawing fide; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 4 Dodson 2003 photo ok; Orchid Digest Vol 70 #1 2006 photo fide; Orchids Masdevallia with its segregates including Dracula Zelenko 2014 photo fide; Pleurothallids Neotropical Jewels Vol 1 Karremans & Viera 2020 photo fide
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