Porroglossum marcojimeneziorum Baquero & A.Fierro-Minda 2020 SUBGENUS Porroglossum SECTION Porroglossum

Comparison photo between P marcojimenziorum & P hirtzii

TYPE Photos by © Baquero & A.Fierro-Minda

Common Name Marco Jimenez’s Porroglossum [Marco M. Jimenez (father) and Marco M. Jimenez (son) from Zamora, Ecuador; both passionate orchid lovers current]

Flower Size .6” [1.5 cm]

Found in Zamora Chinchipe province of Ecuador in low elevation cloud forest at elevations around 1400 to 1500 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cool growing epiphyte with nigrescent, erect, slender ramicauls enveloped by 2 to 3, tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect-arcuate, coriaceous, narrowly obovate, acute, attenuate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the winter through spring on a arising from low on the ramicaul, peduncle glabrous, erect to suberect, 3 to 3.4” [7.5 to 8.5 cm] long, provided with 2 distant, tubular, imbricating bracts, cogested, successively single, few flowered inflorescence with tubular, imbricating, shorter than the ovary floral bracts.

”Porroglossum marcojimeneziorum is similar to P. hirtzii from which it differs by possessing smaller flowers .64" to .72” VS .8” (16–18 mm vs. 20 mm of the corolla), with widely opened lateral sepals (vs. a larger flower with the lateral sepals inflexed forward), triangular ovate, obtuse, and white with cream colored nerves in the adaxial side (vs. triangular ovate, subacute, and white suffused with pale rose in the adaxial side), the callus of the lip transversely triangular and longitudinally notched in the middle (vs. the low, erect, transverse, entire callus), the blade of the lip transversely obovate stained with purple (vs. rhomboid and white)" Baquero & A.Fierro-Minda 2020

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* LANKESTERIANA 20(2): 129–136.Baquero, Minda & Yeager 2020 drawing/photo fide;

* Pleurothallids Neotropical Jewels Vol 1 Karremans & Viera 2020 photo fide;

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