Porroglossum eduardii (Rchb. f.) Sweet 1972 SUBGENUS Eduardii 1987
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Common Name Eduard's Porroglossum [Eduard Klaboch, Discoverer of species late 1800's]
Flower Size .4" [1 cm]
Found in Risaralda, Cauca and Narino departments of Colombia and Ecuador at elevations of 1900 to 2900 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cool to cold growing terrestrial or epiphyte with erect, slender ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 to 3 tubular sheaths carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptical, obtuse leaf with the base cuneate into the slender, elongate petiole that blooms in the fall on an erect, slender loose, successively few flowered, 6 to 8 1/5" [15 to 21 cm] long, racemose inflorescence with a few distant, tubular floral bracts and 2 to 3 flowers open simultaneously.
Synonyms *Masdevallia eduardi Rchb.f. 1880
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Die Orchideen 3 Auflage Bd 1 Sonderabdruck aus Schlechter Lieferung 8 449 - 512 Brieger, Maatsch and Senghas 1976; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol IV Systematics of Acostaea, Condylago and Porroglossum Luer 1987 drawing fide; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 6 COS 1998 photo fide; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1C lieferung 42 - 43 pg 2626 - 2762 Brieger 2001 ; Australian Orchid Review Vol 69 No 4 2004 photo; Orchid Digest Vol 70 #1 2006 photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 78 #1 2014 photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 78 #4 2014 photo fide; Orchids Masdevallia with its segregates including Dracula Zelenko 2014 photo fide; The Orchid Review Vol 127 No 1328 December 2019 photo fide; Pleurothallids Neotropical Jewels Vol 1 Karremans & Viera 2020 photo fide
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