Porroglossum meridionale P. Ortiz 1976[1977] SUBGENUS Porroglossum SECTION Porroglossum
Photo by Eric Hunt, Plant grown by Dan Newman of Hanging Gardens.
TYPE Drawing by Carl Luer
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Common Name The Southernomost Porroglossum [At that time]
Flower Size .6" [1.5 cm]
Found in Ecuador and Huanuco department of Peru as a mini-miniature, cool growing epiphyte occurring at elevations of 1400 to 1800 meters with an erect, slender ramicaul enveloped by 2 to 3 tubular sheaths with a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, verrucose, long petiolate, elliptical, obtuse to subacute, conduplicate base leaf that is mottled with purple on the underside giving rise to a congested, successively few flowered, racemose, 3.2 to 4" [8 to 10 cm] long, inflorescence with a few widely spaced bracts and tubular, imbricating floral bracts and holding the flower well above the leaf occurring in the fall and winter.
"Distinguished by the small, verrucose leaves and comparitively large, dull purple flowers with terete, brownish tails. The callus of the lip is short, transverse and red pubescent." Luer 1991
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol IV Systematics of Acostaea, Condylago and Porroglossum Luer 1987 drawing fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 70 No 1 2001 photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 70 #1 2006 photo fide; Orchid Species of Peru Zelenko & Bermudez 2009 photo fide; Mille et Une Mini Orchideees Roguenant 2009 photo good; AOS Bulletin Vol 79 #3 2010 photo fide; 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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