Porroglossum condylosepalum H.R.Sweet 1975 SUBGENUS Porroglossum SECTION Tortae 1987
Photos by © Alfonso Doucette and his Flicker Orchid Photo Site
Common Name The Knuckle Porroglossum [refers to the knob-like structures on the sepals]
Flower Size .2" [5 mm]
Found in Pastaza and Tungurahua provinces of Ecuador at elevations around 1000 to 1400 meters as a mini-miniature sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with blackish, erect, slender ramicauls enveloped by 2 to 3 tubular sheaths and carrying an erect, coriaceous, narrowly obovate, subacute, gradually narrowing below into the slender, elongate petiolate base leaf that blooms in the summer on a suberect to horizontal, slender, glabrous, 2.4 to 3.2" [6 to 8 cm] long, congested, successively few flowered inflorescence arising from low on the ramicaul with a few distant bracts and tubular imbricating floral bracts.
"Easily recognized by the short, thick, rounded tails of all three sepals, broader and shorter than those of Porroglossum uxorium ." luer 1987
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol IV Systematics of Acostaea, Condylago and Porroglossum Luer 1987 drawing fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 70 #1 2001 photo fide; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 4 Dodson 2003 drawing/photo fide; Mille et Une Mini Orchideees Roguenant 2009 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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