Porroglossum schramii Luer 1980 SUBGENUS Porroglossum SECTION Porroglossum
Photos by Lourens Grobler ©
TYPE Drawing by Carl Luer
Flower Size 2/3" [1.5 cm]
Common Name Schram's Porroglossum [American Co-discoverer of Species current]
Found in Zamora-Chinchipe province of Ecuador in cloud forests at elevations around 1600 to 1800 meters as a miniature sized, cool growing lithophyte with blackish, erect, slender ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 to 3 tubular sheaths and carrying a single apical, erect, thickly coriaceous, verrucose, narrowly obovate to elliptical leaf that is narrowly cuneate below into the petiole and blooms at any time on a congested, successively flowering, racemose, 3.6" to 4" [9 to 10 cm] long, erect, slender, glabrous inflorescence arising from low on the ramicaul with a few distant bracts and a tubular floral bract and holding a single flower well above the leaves
There is a great deal of variation in the flower between plants as well as flowers on the same plant.
"The flowers are white, dotted with rose, the sepals gradually narrowed into light brown tails. The lip is white with an erect, transverse, glabrous callus at the base." Luer 1991
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; * Phytologia Vol 46 379 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/photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 70 #1 2006 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 79 #4 2010 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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