Porroglossum echidna (Rchb. f.) Garay 1953 SUBGENUS Porroglossum SECTION Echidna Luer 1987TYPE for the SECTION
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Common Name The Hedgehog Porroglossum [refers to the prickly inflorescence]
Flower Size 3/4" [2 cm]
Found in Santander and Norte de Santander departments of Colombia and Venezuela in cloud forests at elevations around 2500 to 3200 meters as a miniature sized, cold growing epiphyte or litho-terrrestrial with stout, erect ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 to 3 tubular sheaths and carrying a single apical, erect, thickly coriaceous, verrucose, petiolate, narrowly obovate to narrowly elliptical, acute leaf that gradually narrows below into the petiole and blooms at any time on a congested, successively few flowering, racemose, densely long pubescent, 4" to 8" [10 to 20 cm] long, erect inflorescence arising from low on the ramicaul with a bract below the middle and tubular, imbricating floral bracts and holding a single flower well above the leaves.
Synonyms *Masdevallia echidna Rchb. f. 1855; Scaphosepalum echidna (Rchb. f.) Schltr. 1920
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Bonplandia Rchb.f 1855 as Masdevallia echidna; Venezuelan Orchids Vol 5 Dunsterville & Garay 1966 not = P muscosum; Die Orchideen 3 Auflage Bd 1 Sonderabdruck aus Schlechter Lieferung 8 449 - 512 Brieger, Maatsch and Senghas 1976 drawing/photo fide; Orchids of Venezuela, An Illustrated Field Guide Vol 3 Dunsterville & Garay 1979 not = P muscosum; AOS Bulletin Vol 49 No 6 1980 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 55 No 6 1986 drawing fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol IV Systematics of Acostaea, Condylago and Porroglossum Luer 1987 drawing fide; Venezuelan Orchids Dunsterville 1987 drawing fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 57 No 2 1988 photo; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 4 COS 1992 photo ok; The Manual Of Cultivated Orchid Species Bechtel, Cribb & Launert 1992; Orchids of Venezuela [An illustrated field guide] Vol. 3 Ramiro and Carnevali 2000 drawing fide; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1C lieferung 42 - 43 pg 2626 - 2762 Brieger 2001; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 4 Dodson 2003 drawing fide; Orquideologia Vol 28 #2 2011 as Scaphosepalum ecidna photo ok; Orquideologia Vol 29 #1 2012 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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