Porroglossum rodrigoi H.R. Sweet 1974 SUBGENUS Porroglossum SECTION Porroglossum
Photo by © Richard Ashby and hisOrchid Photo Website.
Photo by © Jay Pfahl
Drawing by Carl Luer
Common Name Rodrigo's Porroglossum [Rodrigo Escobar, Colombian Orchid Collector 20th century]
Flower Size .4" [1 cm]
Found in Antioquia in northwestern Colombia just north of Medellin at elevations around 1700 meters as a fairly rare, mini-miniature sized, cool growing species as it is restricted to a single, small location with erect, slender ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 to 3 tubular sheaths carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, lightly verrucose, elliptical, acute leaf that is narrowly cuneate into the slender, elongate petiole and blooms in the fall on an erect, successive several flowered, smooth, glabrous inflorescence with a single successive flower held well above the leaves.
The small bright pink flowers are produced in succession for quite a number of months on a thin, 3.6 to 4" [9 to 10 cm] long, wiry inflorescence that carries a single flower held well above the net veined, dark green leaves, stippled with purple on the back. It grows best in cool climates.
"Distinguished by the little purple flowers witha very short,thin tail of the dorsal sepal abd prominently clavate, yellowish tails of the lateral sepals. " Luer 1991
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol IV Systematics of Acostaea, Condylago and Porroglossum Luer 1987 drawing fide; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 4 COS 1992 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 70 No 1 2001 photo fide; 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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