Porroglossum tripollex Luer 1998 SUBGENUS Porroglossum SECTION Porroglossum
Photo by © Eric Hunt
Photos by Paul Hedlund ©
TYPE Drawing by Carl Luer
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Common Name The Three Thumbed Porroglossum [refers to the sepaline tails]
Flower Size .4" [1 cm]
Found in Ecuador without locational data as a mini-miniature sized, cool to cold growing, presumed to be a caespitose epiphyte with black, erect, slender, ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 to 3 deciduous, tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, dark green, coriaceous, lightly dorsally verrucose, sub-acute to obtuse apically leaf that is cuneate below into the blackish, elongate petiole that blooms in the summer on a basal, arising from low on the ramicaul with a bract below the middle, slender, 3.5" [8.5 cm] successively few flowered, glabrous inflorescence with tubular, shorter than the ovary floral bracts.
"The non-rotated flowers are easily recognized by the three thick, thumb-like tails of the sepals. The petals are sharply angled on the lower margin below the middle and the apex is subclavate. The blade of the lip is cuneate with rounded corners." Luer 1998
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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; * Icones Pleurothillidinarum Vol 17 Systematics of Pleurothallis Section Abortivae, Truncatae, Subsection Acroniae, Subgenera Dracontia and Uncifera pg 114 Luer 1998 drawing 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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