Porroglossum porphyreum G.Merino, A.Doucette & Pupulin 2010 SUBGENUS Porroglossum SECTION Echidna Luer 1987
Photo by Duane McDowell and his Flickr Orchid Photo Website
Photo by Ecuagenera Orchid Website
Another Flower with longer tails
Photo by © John Varigos
TYPE Drawing by Carl Luer
Common Name The Purple Colored Porroglossum
Flower Size .6" [1.5 cm]
Found in Morona-Santiago province of Ecuador in premontane forests on mossy trees at elevations around 1600 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cool growing epiphyte with terete, erect, abbreviated, basally blackish ramicauls enveloped by 2 to 3 tubular, membraneous bracts and carrying a single, apical, coriaceous, elliptic-obovate, obtuse to acute, narrowing below into the conduplicate, petiolate base leaf that blooms at most any time of the year, on a peduncle terete, slender, glabgrousd, 4 to 4.8" [10 to 12 cm] long, congested, successively few flowered inflorescence with tubular, shorter than the pedicel floral bracts and carrying resupinate, non-fragrant flowers.
"Porroglossum porphyreum is similar to P. schramii. P. porphyreum can be distinguished from P. schramii by having sepals that abruptly (rather than gradually) contract into thickened (rather than thin) sepaline tails. The petals of P. porphyreum have teeth below the middle on both margins while the petals of P. schramii only bear a tooth margin on the upper margin. The labellum of P. porhpyreum has a basal callus that is longer and broader than the basal callus of P. schramii." G.Merino, A.Doucette & Pupulin 2010
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; * Lankesteriana 9: 465 Solano 2010 drawing/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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