Porroglossum myosurotum Luer & Hirtz 2011 SUBGENUS Porroglossum SECTION Porroglossum
Photo by © Ron Parsons
TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer
Common Name The Mouse Tail Porroglossum [refers to the slender, hispid peduncle]
Flower Size .4" [1 cm]
Found in Amazonas department of Peru without locational data as a mini-miniature sized, cool growing, caespitose, presumed epiphyhte with slender ramicauls enveloped by a tubular sheath nearly as long and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, smooth, narrowly elliptical, acute, gradually narrowling below into the indistinctly petiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring on an erect, from low on the ramicaul, peduncle 2.8" [7 cm] long, slender, hirsute, with a tubular bract below the middle, successively single, few flowered inflorescence with a tubular, shorter than the pedicel floral bracts and carrying light tan flowers with dark brown veins and a purple black lip.
"Related to Porroglossum muscosum but differs in a much smaller habit with smooth, narrowly elliptical leaves. The slender, erect peduncle is similarily covered in soft spines. The ovary is long pilose near the sepals. The tan flwoer with dark brown veins is also smaller and with thick sepaline tails about .32" [ 8mm] long, The lip is purple black with an oblong callus that ends abruptly near the middle of the blade." Luer 2011
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
*Harvard Papers in Botany Vol 16 No 2: 345 Luer, Thoerle and Werner 2011
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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