!Porroglossum mordax (Rchb. f.) Luer 1970 SUBGENUS Porroglossum SECTION Porroglossum
Plant and Flower in situ Antioquia 3/20
Photos by Jay Pfahl
Photo by Jorge Mario Munera
Photo by Patricia Harding
Photo by © Lourens Grobler
Photo by Eric Hunt, Plant grown by Dan Newman of Hanging Gardens.
Drawing by Carl Luer
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Common Name The Snappish Porroglossum [refers to the fierce shape of the flower]
Flower Size .4" [1 cm]
Found in Antioquia and Cauca departments of Colombia at elevations of 1700 to 2400 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cool to cold growing, caespitose epiphyte. This orchid has erect ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 to 3 scarious sheaths and carries a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, narrowly elliptic to narrowly obovate, subacute, subverrucose leaf with a long petiole. The large blooms are produced in succession on an erect, 4 to 5" [10 to 15 cm] long stem that holds the few, successively single flowers well above the leaves and can occur at any time of the year.
"Easily recognized by the thickened margins of the narrowly triangular, tailess sepals that are coarsely erose." Luer 1991
Synonyms Lothiania mordax (Rchb. f.) Kraenzl. 1924; Masdevallia colombiana (Schltr.) P.H. Allen 1948; *Masdevallia mordax Rchb. f. 1886; Porroglossum colombianum Schlechter 1920; Scaphosepalum antioquiense Kraenzl. 1922
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Die Orchideen der Sudamerikanischen Kordillerenstaaten II Colombia Schlechter 1920 as P colombianum; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol IV Systematics of Acostaea, Condylago and Porroglossum Luer 1987 drawing fide; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 4 COS 1992 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 70 No 1 2001 photo fide; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1C lieferung 42 - 43 pg 2626 - 2762 Brieger 2001 as P colombianum; 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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