Porroglossum dreisei Luer & Andreetta 1991 SUBGENUS Porroglossum SECTION Porroglossum
Photo by © Peter Bryder
Photo by Lourens Grobler ©
TYPE Drawing by Carl Luer
Common Name or Meaning Dreise's Porroglossum [French Canadian and Co-discoverer of species current]
Flower Size .8" [2 cm]
Found in Morona-Santiago province of Ecuador in mist forests at elevations of 1700 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cool growing epiphyte with blackish, slender ramicauls enveloepd basally by 2 to 3 tubular sheaths and carrying an erect, thickly coriaceous, lightly verrucose, elliptic-obovate, obtuse, gradually narrowing below in to the cuneate, elongate, petiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring on an erect, smooth, slender, 6.4 to 7.2" [16 to 18 cm] long, congested, successively few flowered, racemose inflorescence with tubular, imbricating floral bracts.
"Similar to P andreettae but the inflorescence is much longer, the flower is bigger, and the prominent, broad, curved, strap-like sepaline tails. The petals are obtusely angled and the glabrous lip is narrowly cuneate witha sulcate apex. The ovary is not twisted. The flowers attain their resupinate position by a basckward bending of the pedicel." Luer 1991
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Icones Pleurothallidinarum VIII Systematics of Lepanthospsis, Octomeria subgenus Pleurothallopsis, Restrepiella, Salpistele and Teagueia Luer 1991 In Addenda pg 154 drawing fide; Native Ecuadorian Orchids VOl 4 Dodson 2003 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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