Porroglossum sergii P. Ortiz 1975 SUBGENUS Porroglossum SECTION Porroglossum
Photo by © Lourens Grobler
Another View with lip triggered
Photos by © Peter Bryder
Drawing by Carl Luer
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Common Name Sergio's Porroglossum [Sergio Restrepo - First collector of species]
Flower Size 2" [5 cm]
Found in Antioquia deparmtent of Colombia in cloud forests at elevations around 2050 meters as a miniature sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte with slender, erect, ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 to 3 close, tubular sheaths and carrying a single, erect, coriaceous, smooth, narrowly elliptic, acute leaf that is gradually narrowed below into the petiolate base and blooms in the spring on a slender, erect, 8" to 9 3/4" [20 to 24 cm] long, successively single flowered, racemose inflorescence arising from low on the ramicaul with 3 distant, tubular bracts.
"Distinguished by the large, light rose sepals shortly pubescent within, with all three sepaline tasils slender and spreading. The calllus of the blade of the lip is tall and longitudinal." Luer 1991
Synonyms Porroglossum sergioi P. Ortiz 1987 [Mispelling in Publication]
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 # 533 = P nutibarra; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 4 COS 1992 photo # 532 P nutibara not = P sergioi; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 6 COS 1998 errata = P nutibarra; 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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