Porroglossum miguelangelii G.Merino, A.Doucette & Pupulin 2010 SUBGENUS Porroglossum SECTION Porroglossum
Photo by Franco Pupulin
Photos by Pontus Aratoun and his Miniature Orchid Website
TYPE Drawing by G.Merino, A.Doucette & Pupulin
Common Name Miguel Angel's Porroglossum [M Soto Mexican Botanist and Orchid Enthusiast early 2009]
Flower Size .6" [1.5 cm]
Found in Ecuador without specific locality but in premontane to lower montane cloud forests on mossy tree trunks at elevations around 1800 meters as a mini-mininature sized, cool growing epiphyte with terete, erect, abbreviated, blackish at the base ramicauls enveloped by 2 to 3 tubular sheaths and carryijg a single, apical, erect, coriceous, spathulate, elliptical obovate, narrowing below into the conduplicate, petiolate base leaf that blooms in the winter on an erect, glabrous, 2 to 3.8" [5 to 9.5 cm] long, congested, successively single, few flowered inflorescence with tubular floral bracts.
"Porroglossum miguelangelii is most similar to P. lycinum from northern Peru, from which it differs by smaller plants, the longer, narrower petals with margins that are not obtusely angled below the middle, the presence of tooth-like processes before the stigma (absent in P. lycinum), the spreading, pale green sepals, suffused with yellow at their apices (vs. projected forwards, speckled and suffused with brown in P. lycinum). The two species have similarly shaped labella that are both pale green and heavily flecked with dark purple towards their apex." G.Merino, A.Doucette & Pupulin 2010
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; * Lankesteriana 9: 460 Solano 2010 drawing fide; Pleurothallids Neotropical Jewels Vol 1 Karremans & Viera 2020 photo fide to the 1st photo
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