Porroglossum lorenae Luer 2004 SUBGENUS Eduardii 1987
Photo by © Ron Parsons
TYPE Drawing by Carl Luer
LATE
EARLY
Common Name Lorena's Porroglossum [Ecuadorian Orchid Enthusaist current]
Flower Size .4" [1 cm]
Found in Imbabura province of Ecuador at elevations around 2445 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cold growing, long-repent epiphyte with erect, slender ramicauls enveloped by 2 tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptical, obtuse, cuneate below into the slender petiolate base leaf that blooms in the late summer and early fall on a distant, 5" [12.5 cm] long, successively single, few flowered inflorescence arising from the base of the ramicaul with a few short bracts and has a tubular, shorter than the pedicel floral bract.
"Similar to Porroglossum eduardii both with long repent habits. Instead of orange the lateral sepals of P lorenae are red with a large, yellow central area. They are more deeply connate to a longer dorsal sepals into a broader sepaline tube and the dorsal sepal apparently does not recurve. Instead of a pair of large crests on the inner surface of the lateral sepals only one smaller crest is present." Luer 2001
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; * Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVI Pleurothallis subgenus Acianthera and Three Allied subgenera, A Second Century of new Species of Stelis of Ecuador, Epibator, Ophidion and Zootrophion Luer 2004 drawing fide;
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