Porroglossum agile Luer 1980 SUBGENUS Porroglossum SECTION Porroglossum
Photo by © Peter Bryder
Photos by Alfonso Doucette Copyright © 2009, and His Flicker website
TYPE Drawing by Carl Luer
Common Name The Nimble Porroglossum [refers to the quickly untriggered lip]
Flower Size .1" [5mm]
Found in Junin department of Peru in the Chanchamayo Valley as a mini-miniature sized sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with slender, erect ramicauls enveloped by 2 to 3, white, tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, thickly coriaceous, narrowly obovate, subacute, narrowly cuneate below into the petilolate base leaf that blooms in the spring on an erect, glabrous, slender, 3.2 to 4" [8 to 10 cm] long, congested, successively flowering, racemose inflorescence arising from low on the ramicaul, with a few distant bracts and has a tubular floral bract.
"Superficially the flowers of P agile appear similar to P muscosum , but P agile has a glabrous peduncle. The densely pubescent, pyramidal callus of the base of the blade of the lip is similar to that of the thick tailed P meridionale also form Peru." Luer 1991
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; * Phytologia Vol 46 375 Miscellaneous New Species in the Pleurothallidinae Luer 1980; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol IV Systematics of Acostaea, Condylago and Porroglossum Luer 1987 drawing 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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