Porroglossum hirtzii Luer 1987 SUBGENUS Porroglossum SECTION Porroglossum
Photo by © Eric Hunt
Photo by © Peter Bryder
Photo courtesy of Patricia Harding
TYPE Drawing by Carl Luer
and EARLY 
Common Name Hirtz's Porroglossum [German Engineer, Orchid Enthusiast and Orchid Collector in Ecuador current]
Flower Size 1/2" + [1.5 cm]
Found in Morona-Saantiago province of Ecuador at elevations of 1200 meters in cloud forests as a mini-miniature sized, cool growing epiphtye with blackish, erect, slender ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 to 3 tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erct, coriaceous, elliptical, obtuse to subacute leaf thqat is cuneate into the slender, blackish, elongate petiole that blooms in the spring on a slender, erect, successively single flowered inflorescence arising from low on the ramicaul and with 2 closely applied, distant bracts and tubular, imbricating floral bracts carrying resupinate flowers.
This species and the recently described P marcojimeneziorum are unique to this genus as they are the only ones that are white and do not have any tails.
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 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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