Porroglossum sijmii Luer 2006 SUBGENUS Porroglossum SECTION Tortae 1987
Photo by Eric Hunt ©
Photo by Ron Parsons © 2009
TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer
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Common Name Sijm's Porroglossum [Dutch Orchid Enthusiast and discoverer of species current]
Flower Size .8" [2 cm]
Found in Zamora-Chinchipe province of Ecuador at elevations around 2500 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cold growing, caespitose epiphyte with erect, ramicauls enveloped by 2 to 3 tubualr sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, faintly rugose, elliptical, subacute, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the late winter on a slender, [8 to 9.5 cm] long, successively few flowered, racemose inflorescence arising from low on the ramiucal with a bract below the middle and imbricating, tubular, as long as the pedicel floral bracts.
"Most similar to Porroglossum condylosepalum but differs with a larger flower borne on a non-twisted ovary. The dorsal sepal terminates in a thick verrucose apex instead of a short thick tail. The tails of the lateral sepals are similar. The lip also differs with a tall erect callus at the base of the blade." Luer 2006
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; * Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVIII A Reconsideration of Masdevallia Systematics of Specklinia and Vegetatively similar taxa Luer 2006 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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