Porroglossum dactylum Luer 1988 SUBGENUS Porroglossum SECTION Tortae 1987
Photo by © Ron Parsons
TYPE Drawing by Carl Luer
Common Name The Finger Porroglossum [refers to the fingerlike sepaline tails]
Flower Size 2/5" [1 cm]
Found in Morona-Santiago province of Ecuador as a miniature sized, cool growing epiphyte at elevations of 1500 to 1700 meters with erect, slender, blackish ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 to 3 tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptical, subacute petiolate leaf that is cuneate below into the slender petiole and blooms in the spring on an erect, smooth, slender, 3.2" to 3.6" [8 to 9 cm] long, congested, racemose, successively few flowered inflorescence arising from low on the ramicaul with 2 to 3, closely applied, distant bracts and a tubular floral bract all holding the non-resupinate flowers well above the leaf.
This species is similar to P dalstroemii but differs in having longer, transverse, subclavate tails of the lateral sepals and a broad glabrous, triangular blade of the lip.
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; * Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol V Systematics of Dresslerella and Scaphosepalum Luer 1988 Pg 108 drawing fide[does not show pubescent lip margin]; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 4 Dodson 2003 drawing fide; Orchid Digest Vol 70 #1 2006 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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