Porroglossum hoeijeri Luer 1985 SUBGENUS Porroglossum SECTION Porroglossum
Photo by © Lourens Grobler
Non-Triggered P hoejeri Flower
Photo courtesy of Eric Hunt, plant grown by the San Francisco Conservatory of Flowers.
TYPE Drawing by Carl Luer
Common Name Hoeijer's Porroglossum [Swedish Discoverer of Species current]
Flower Size .4" [1 cm]
Found in Carchi province of Ecuador in cloud forests at elevations around 1920 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte or terrestrial with blackish, erect, slender ramicauls enveloped baslly by 2 to 3 tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, narrolwy obovate, subacute, gradually narrowing below into the elongate, slender, petiolate base leaf the blooms in the spring on a very slender, erect to suberect, glabrous, 4.4 to 8" [11 to 20 cm] long, congested, successively few flowered inflorescence arising from low on the ramicaul with tubular, imbricating floral bracts.
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol IV Systematics of Acostaea, Condylago and Porroglossum Luer 1987 drawing fide; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 4 Dodson 2003 drawing/photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 70 #1 2006 photo fide; Pleurothallids Neotropical Jewels Vol 1 Karremans & Viera 2020 photo fide
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