Porroglossum andreettae Luer 1980 SUBGENUS Porroglossum SECTION Porroglossum
Photo by Alfonso Doucette Copyright © 2009, and His Flicker website
TYPE Drawing by Carl Luer
Common Name Andreetta's Porroglossum [Ecuadorian Priest and orchid enthusiast current]
Flower Size .6" [1.5 cm]
Found in Morona-Santiago province of Ecuador at elevations of 1500 meters in warmer cloud forests as a mini-miniature sized, cool growing epiphyte with short ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 to 3 tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, thickly coriaceous, obovate, subacute, gradually narrowing below into the indistinct petiole and blooms in the spring on a basal, erect, 2" [5 cm] long, successively few flowered inflorescence arising from low on the ramicaul and carrying a single flower well above the leaves.
"Recognized by the little, light greenish flower with short, broad tails of the sepals, about as long as the blades themselves. The apices of the lateral sepals curve outward and downward. The glabrous blade of the lip lacksa well developed callus." Luer 1991
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Phytologia Vol 46 375 Miscellaneous New Species in the Pleurothallidinae Luer 1980; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol IV Systematics of Acostaea, Condylago and Porroglossum Luer 1987 ; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 4 Dodson 2003 drawing/photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 70 #1 2006 photo fide;
