Porroglossum aureum Luer 1980 SUBGENUS Porroglossum SECTION Porroglossum
Photo by © Eric Hunt
Another Flower with lip in triggered position
Photo courtesy of Danny Lentz ©, plant grown by the Atlanta Botanical Garden
Photo by © John Varigos and his Flickr Orchid Photo Website
TYPE Drawing by Carl Luer
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Common Name The Golden Porroglossum [refers to the flower color]
Flower Size 2/5" [1 cm]
Found in Carchi province of Ecuador in cloud forests at elevations of 1900 to 2500 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte , with an erect, slender ramicaul enveloped by 2 to 3 tubular sheaths and a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, subverrucose, long petiolate, narrowly obovate, subacute leaf that gradually narrows to the petiole that blooms in the summer on a congested, successively few flowered, 5" to 5 1/2" [12 to 13 cm] long, racemose inflorescence with a few widely spaced bracts and tubular, imbricating floral bracts and a single flower at a time, held above the leaves.
"The species is readily distinguished by the bright color, no other species to date has this uniform golden yellow color. The tail of the dorsal sepal is short and reflexed, the long tails of the lateral sepals are thickened below the apex. The lip is glabrous with a tall, thick callus above the base of the blade." Luer 1991
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; * Phytologia Vol 46 376 Miscellaneous New Species in the Pleurothallidinae Luer 1980; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol IV Systematics of Acostaea, Condylago and Porroglossum Luer 1987 drawing fide; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 4 Dodson 2003 drawing ok; Orchid Digest Vol 70 #1 2006 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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