Porroglossum portillae Luer & Andreetta 1980 SUBGENUS Porroglossum SECTION Tortae 1987
Photos by © Peter Bryder
Photo by © Lourens Grobler.
TYPE Drawing by Carl Luer
Common Name Portilla's Porroglossum [Ecuadorian Orchid Nurseryman current]
Flower Size .4" [1 cm]
Found in Morona-Santiago province of Ecuador in wet forests at elevations of 1300 to 1500 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cool growing epiphyte with short, erect, ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 to 3 tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, reticulated, elliptical, obtuse leaf that gradually narrows below into the cuneate, blackish, elongate petiolate base and blooms in the summer on a basal, erect, slender, 3.2 to 4.4" [8 to 11 cm] long successively few, single flowered inflorescence carrying non resupinate flowers.
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Phytologia 47: 57 1980; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol IV Systematics of Acostaea, Condylago and Porroglossum Luer 1987 drawing fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 72 No 1 2003 photo fide; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 4 Dodson 2003 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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