Porroglossum parsonsii Luer 2006 SUBGENUS Porroglossum SECTION Echidna Luer 1987
Photo by Alfonso Doucette Copyright © 2009, and His Flicker website
Photos by © Jay Pfahl
Photo by © Eric Hunt
Photo by © Andreas Philipp
TYPE Drawing by Carl Luer
Common Name Parson's Porroglossum [American Orchid Nurseryman and discoverer of species current]
Flower Size 1.2" [3 cm]
Found in Colombia without collection data as a mini-miniature sized, cool growing, aespitose epiphyte with erect, stour ramicauls enveloped by a tubular sheaths and another at the base and carrying a single, erect, thickly coriaceous, ellitpoical, obtuse, narrowing below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring on an erect, densely pubescent, to 4.8" [12 cm] long, congested, successively single, racemose inflorescencearising from low on the ramicaul and has imbricating, tubular, just shorter than the pedicel floral bracts.
"Similar to !Porroglossum echidna with both having rigid, verrucose leaves and a longer peduncle, covered by a long, dense pubescence, that bears a successively flowered raceme. P parsonsii have tan externally flowres with purple veins and deep purple-brown within, instead of brown or green flowers. The sepaline cuo is compressed with a deep mentum instead of more or less rounded. the somewhat shorter and narrower sepaline tails expand widely and curve more or less upward instead of curving downward." Luer 2006
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; * Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVIII A Reconsideration of Masdevallia Systematics of S[ecklinia 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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