Porroglossum teaguei Luer 1980 SUBGENUS Porroglossum SECTION Porroglossum
Photo by © Ron Hanko and his Flickr Orchid Photo Website
Photo by © Patricia Harding
Photo courtesy of Eric Hunt, plant grown by Dan Newman of Hanging Gardens
TYPE Drawing by Carl Luer
Common Name Teague's Porroglossum [American Botanist 20th century]
Flower Size 1.2" [3 cm]
Found in Pichincha province of Ecuador on road embankments at elevations around 2200 meters as a miniature sized, cold growing epiphyte or terrestrial that has an erect, slender, ramicaul enveloped by 2 to 3 tubular sheaths carrying a single, apical, erect, criaceous, subverrucose, narrowly, obovate, subacute leaf that gradually narrows to the elongate petiole, giving rise to a congested, successively few flowered, 5.2 to 8" [13 to 20 cm] long, racemose inflorescence with a few widely spaced bracts and tubular, imbricating floral bracts that blooms in the spring and holds the flowers well above the leaves.
"Similar to P amethystinum but the bright purple flowers of P teaguei are larger with much longer tail of the dorsal sepal. the ovary is verrucose instead of smooth and the callus at the base of the lip is tall and rounded instead of low and flat." LUer 1991
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; * Phytologia Vol 46 381 Miscellaneous New Species in the Pleurothallidinae Luer 1980; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol IV Systematics of Acostaea, Condylago and Porroglossum Luer 1987 drawing fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 70 No 1 2001 photo; 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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