Porroglossum jesupiae Luer 1989 SUBGENUS Porroglossum SECTION Tortae 1987
Photo by © Eric Hunt
Photos by © Ron Parsons and his Flower Shots Website
TYPE Drawing by Carl Luer
Common Name Jesup's Porroglossum [Female American Orchid Enthusiast current
Flower Size .4" [1 cm]
Found in Morona-Santiago province of Ecuador in cloud forests at elevations of 1550 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cool growing epiphyte with blackish, slender, erect ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 to 3 thin, tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apcial, erect to suberect, thickly coriaceous, finely verrucose, elliptical-obovate, obtuse, cuneate below into the slender, petiolate base leaf that blooms in the winter on a slender, erect, smooth, congested, racemose, 2.8" to 3.4" [7 to 8.5 cm] long, successively single, few flowered inflorescence arising from low on the ramicaul with three closely applied, distant bracts and imbricating, tubular floral bracts.
"Similar to P dactylum, and Porroglossum dalstroemii but P jesupiae is easily distinguished by the larger, resupinate flower with long erect, spotted tails of the lateral sepals. The ovary of all three speies is twisted 180 degrees placing the lip lowermost in the flower. The lip of the other 2 species remains uppermostrpobaby from an additional backward bending of the pedicels." Luer 1991
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; * Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol VI Systematics of Pleurothallis subgen Ancipita, Scopula and Trisetella Luer 1989 pg 124 drawing fide; Native Ecuadorina Orchids Vol 4 Dodson 2003 drawing; Orchids of Bolivia Vol 2 Laelinae Vasquez and Ibisch 2004; 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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