Porroglossum oversteegenianum Luer & Sijm 2010 SUBGENUS Porroglossum SECTION Porroglossum
Photo by © Ron Parsons
Photo by © The Brabant Orchid Photo Website
TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer and the The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
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Common Name or Meaning Pieter Oversteegen's Porroglossum [Dutch Orchid Enthusiast and Editor of Orchids In Color 2000's]
Flower Size .2" [5 mm]
Found in Ecuador without locality as a mini-miniature sized epiphyte with an erect, slender ramicaul enveloped by 2 thin, tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, thickly coriaceous, slightly verrucose, elliptical-obovate, subacute to obtuse, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the late summer and early fall on an ascending, smooth, slender, 3.2" [8 cm] long, successively single, few flowered inflorescence with a few, distant bracts, arising from the base of the ramicaul with a tubular floral bract.
"Characterized by the smooth, slender peduncle longer than the elaf, an untwisted ovary and a medium sized flower with transluscent white sepals suffused with rose. The sepaline tails are thick, about as long as the blade. The petals are narrrowly oblong and the blade of the lip is obtriangular with rounded angles and the callus of the claw is low and obscurely conical." Luer 2010
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; * Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXXI Lepanthes of Bolivia Systematics of Octomeria Luer 2010 drawing 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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