Porroglossum acrobat Luer & Sijm 2013 SUBGENUS Porroglossum SECTION Porroglossum

TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer

EARLY

Common Name or Meaning The Acrobat Porroglossum [alluding to the long, outstretched tails of the lateral sepals that resemble a tightrope walker with a balancing pole]

Flower Size .8" [2 cm]

Found in Chachapoyas department of Peru at eleavtions around 1600 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cool growing, caespitose epiphyte with stout, erect ramicauls enveloped by 2 tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, minutely pusticulate, elliptical, obtuse, minutely mucronate, cuneate below into the slender petiolate base leaf that blooms in the early winter on an erect, smooth, slender, peduncle 2.4" [6 cm] long, arising low on the ramicaul, single flowered inflorescence with a thin, tubular, shorter than the pedicel floral bracts and carrying a resupinate flower with rose, glabrous sepals, white petals and a rose with a dark rose apex lip.

"This species is distinguished from the numerous, superficially similar species by long, expanded tails of the lateral sepals that are about twice as long as the blade. The petals are narrowly oblong without marginal angles, and the blade of the lip is obtriangular." Luer 2013

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Harvard Papers in Botany, Vol. 18, No. 2, pp. 173 to 196 2013 MISCELLANEOUS NEW SPECIES IN THE PLEUROTHALLIDINAE (ORCHIDACEAE) Carlyle A. Luer & Lisa Thoerle drawing fide;

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