Porroglossum hystrix Luer 1988 SUBGENUS Porroglossum SECTION Echidna Luer 1987
Photo by Patricia Harding
Photo by © Lourens Grobler
Photo by © Pieter C. Brouwer and his Nature Photo Website TYPE Drawing
TYPE Drawing by Carl Luer
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Common Name The Bristly Peduncle Porroglossum
Flower Size 5/8" [1.5 cm]
Found in Morona Santiago province of Ecuador at elevations of 1000 to 2500 meters and as such is a mini-miniature, cool to cold growing epiphyte with slender ramicauls enveloped by 2 to 3 loose, tubular sheaths carrying a single, apical, erect, lightly verrucose, narrowly elliptical to narrowly obovate, acute leaf that gradually narrows below to the petiole that blooms in the winter and spring on an erect, densely long pubescent, 4" to 6 3/4" [10 to 17 cm] long, racemose, succesively few flowered inflorescence with a bract near the middle and from low down on the ranmicaul with thin tubular bracts and with a single flower produced at a time and held well above the leaves.
"Similar to Porroglossum echidna but P hystrix has smaller flowers with slender tails and also similar to Porroglossum muscosum but the verrucose sepals of P hystrix separate them." Luer 1988
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; * Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol V Systematics of Dresslerella and Scaphsepalum Luer 1988 drawing fide; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 4 Dodson 2003 drawing/photo ok; Orchid Digest Vol 70 #1 2006 photo fide to Pieter's photo; 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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