Porroglossum dalstroemii Luer & Hirtz 1987 SUBGENUS Porroglossum SECTION Tortae 1987
Photo by © Lourens Grobler
Photo courtesy of Patricia Harding.
Photo courtesy of Kjell Nilsson.
TYPE Drawing by Carl Luer
Common Name Dalstroem's Porroglossum [Swedish Orchid Enthusiast]
Flower Size .4" [1 cm]
Found in Morona-Santiago province of Ecuador in mossy cloud forests at elevations of 1700 to 1800 meters as a miniature sized, cool growing epiphyte with erect, slender, blackish ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 to 3 tubular sheaths carryig a single apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptical, obtuse to subacute leaf with the base cuneate into the slender, elongate petiole and blooms in the winter on an erect, slender, 4.8" [12 cm] long, congested, successively single flowered, racemose inflorescence with 2 distant bracts and tubular floral bracts all arising from low on the ramicaul and has a few, non-resupinate flowers.
"Similar to P portillae with similarly twisted ovary and a non-resupinate flower. P dalestromii has smaller flowers, but the same color. The sepaline tails are much shorter and thicker and the blade of the lip is narrowly cuneate instead of broadly cuneae and glabrous." Luer 1991
Synonyms Specklinia caldensis (Hoehne & Schltr.) Luer 2004
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Lankester's Epidendra Website CR; * Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol IV Systematics of Acostaea, Condylago and Porroglossum Luer 1987 drawing fide; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 4 Dodson 2003 drwawing/photo 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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