Porroglossum adrianae Luer & Sijm 2011 SUBGENUS Porroglossum SECTION Porroglossum
Photo by Ron Parsons.
Photos by © Eric Hunt
TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer
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EARLY 
Common Name Adriana's Porrooglossum [Wife of A P Sijm Dutch Botanist current]
Flower Size .75 to .88" [1.8 to 2.2 cm]
Found in Peru without locational data as a mini-miniature sized, cool growing, caespitose epiphyte with erect ramicauls enveloped by a tubular sheath nearly as long as the ramicaul and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, slughtly verrucose, elliptical, obtuse, contracted below into the slender, petiolate base leaf that blooms in the late winter and early spring on an erect, from low on the ramicaul, slender, glabrous peduncle 4" [10 cm] long, with a tubular bract below the middle, successively single, few flowered inflorescence with shorter than the pedicel floral bract and carrying flowers with fleshy, glabrous, light tan sepals and a light tan with dark purple above the middle of the blade lip.
" A small plant with elliptical, petiolate, slightly verrucose leaves that are far surpassed by an erect, smooth peduncle with non-resupinate floweres produced singly at the tip. The striaght, thick tails of the lateral sepals ascend to either side f the similar thick tail of the dorsal sepal, The lip lacks a callus other than the thick, teret claw that continues on the center of the triangular blade." Luer 2011
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Harvard Papers in Botany Vol 16 No 2: 342 Luer, Thoerle and Werner 2011
Orchid Digest Vol 70 #1 2006 as P peruviana photo fide;
Pleurothallids Neotropical Jewels Vol 1 Karremans & Viera 2020 photo fide
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