Porroglossum nutibara Luer & R. Escobar 1987 SUBGENUS Porroglossum SECTION Porroglossum
Photos by © Jay Pfahl, plant grown by Arturo Carrillo.
Flower with lip in triggered position
Photo by © Lourens Grobler
Another Flower Stations of the Lip THIS IS GREAT! Photo by © Peter Bryder Photo by © Marni Turkel. TYPE Drawing by Carl Luer Common Name Nutibara's Porroglossum [Local Indian Chief in Colombia]
Flower Size 1" [2.5 cm]
Found in Antioquia department of Colombia as a cold growing, mini-miniature epiphyte at elevations around 2050 meters with a blackish, erect, slender, ramicaul enveloped by 2 to 3 tubular sheaths with a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, petiolate, narrowly obovate, subacute leaf that gradually narrows to the slender petiole and giving rise to an erect, 6" to 8" [15 to 20 cm] long, successively few flowered inflorescence with a few widely spaced bracts and tubular imbricating floral bracts occuring at any time of the year with the flowers held well above the leaf and having a snapping lip.
"This white flowered species is distinguished by the broad, retuse, apiculate dorsal sepal, the long-thickened, subclavate tails of the lateal sepals shortly pubescent within. and the tall, rounded carina of the lip." Luer 1991
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Lankester's Epidendra Website CR; * Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol IV Systematics of Acostaea, Condylago and Porroglossum Luer 1987 drawing fide; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 4 COS 1992 photo #533 = P sergioi; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 4 COS 1992 photo #532 fide; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 6 COS 1998 errata = P sergioi; Orchid Digest Vol 70 #1 2006 photo fide; Mille et Une Mini Orchideees Roguenant 2009 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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