Porroglossum marniae Luer 2006 SUBGENUS Porroglossum SECTION Porroglossum
Photo by © Ron Parsons
Drawing by © Carl Luer
Common Name or Meaning Marni's Porroglossum [Ms Turkel American Orchid Enthusiast in California current]
Flower Size 3/4" [1.8 cm]
Found in Imbabura province of Ecuador at elevations around 2050 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cool to cold growing, caespitose epiphyte with erect, slender ramicauls enveloped by 2 tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apcial, erect, coriaceous, narrowly elliptical, subacute, gradually narrowing into the slender petiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring on a slender, erect, glabrous, to 10" [to 25 cm] long, successively several flowered inflorescence arising from low on the ramicaul with a few spaced bracts and tubular imbricating,shorer than the pedicel flora lbracts floral bracts.
"P marniae differs form Porroglossum nutibara by a short but distinct tail of the dorsal sepal similar to Porroglossum olivaceum but it differs form it by the transluscent white sepals and the thick tails of the lateral sepals instead of slender . The appearance of the flower is more like P nutibara than P oliviaceum. From both it differswitha low, longitudinal callus of the lip." Luer 2006
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; * Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVIII A Reconsideration of Masdevallia Systematics of S[ecklinia and Vegetatively similar taxa Luer 2006 drawing ok; 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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