Porroglossum apoloae Luer & Sijm 2011 SUBGENUS Porroglossum SECTION Echidna Luer 1987
Photos by Weil Driessen.
TYPE Drawing by Carl Luer .
Common Name Apolo's Porrooglossum Carmen Apolo Ecuadorean cultivator of the species]
Flower Size
Found in Ecuador without locational data as a miniature sized, cool growing, caespitose, presumed epiphyte with erect ramicauls enveloped by a tubularsheath nearly as long, and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, smooth, elliptical, subacute, narrowing below into the petiolate bsae leaf that blooms in the summer on a single, from low on the ramicaul, peduncle slender, erect, hirsute, .8 to 1" [2 to 2.5 cm] long, successively single, few flowered inflorescence with shorter than the pedicel floral bracts and carrying yellow white flowers.
"Similar to P muscosum but differs in the much smaller habit with smooth, long petiolate, elliptical leaves. The slender, erect peduncle is similarily covered in soft spines. The ovary is shortly papillose. The sepals are glabrous with long-acuminate tails. A minute lobule is present on the upper margin of the petals. The blade of the lip is triangular with round, ciliate angles and an oblong callus extendes forward from the claw to about the middle of the 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 Orchids Masdevallia with its segregates including Dracula Zelenko 2014 photo fide;
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