Porroglossum teretilabia Luer & Teague 1991 SUBGENUS Porroglossum SECTION Porroglossum
Photo by Ron Parsons
Photo courtesy of Eric Hunt
TYPE Drawing by Carl Luer
Common Name The Pencil-Lipped Porroglossum
Flower Size 2/5" [1 cm]
Found in Morona-Santiago province of Ecuador at elevations of 1500 to 1700 meters as a mini-miniature, cool growing epiphyte with blackish, slender, erect, ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 to 3 tubular sheaths carrying a single, erect, coriaceous, elliptical-obovate, obtuse with the base cuneate into the slender petiolate base leaf and flowers in the spring on a congested, successively few flowered, smooth, slender, 3.6 to 6" [9 to 15 cm] long, racemose inflorescence arising from low on the ramicaul with 2 to 3, distant, tubular bracts at intervals all along and imbricating floral bracts holding the resupinate flower with a semiterete blade of the lip.
"Most similar to Porroglossum procul but differs in the shorter, thicker sepaline tails and a narrowly oblong, thick, more or less semiterete blade of the lip. The last feature distinguishes this species from all others in the genus." Luer 1991
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; * Icones Pleurothallidinarum VIII Systematics of Lepanthopsis, Octomeria subgenus Pleurothallopsis, Restrepiella, Salpistele and Teagueia Luer 1991 drawing fide; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 4 Dodson 2003 photo fide; 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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