Porroglossum uxorium Luer 1980 SUBGENUS Porroglossum SECTION Tortae 1987
Photo by Jay Pfahl
Photo by Alfonso Doucette Copyright © 2009, and His Flicker website
TYPE Drawing by Carl Luer
Common Name The Wife's Porroglossum [Refers to Carl Luer's Wife]
Flower Size 3/8" [1 cm]
Found in Morona-Santiago province of Ecuador in wet montane cloud forests around elevations of 1700 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cool growing epiphyte in cloud forests with blackish, erect, slender ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 to 3 tubular sheaths carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, suverrucose, prominently purple-reticulate, elliptical, obtuse to subacute leaf with the base cuneate into the slender petiole that blooms in the summer on a slender, suberect to horizontal, congested, successively few flowered, racemose, lightly scabrous inflorescence with non-resupinate flowers.
"Closely related to Porroglossum condylosepalum but is distinguished by the reticulated leaves, sepals with longer, narrower, ascending tails and a subpyramidal callus at the base of the blade of the lip" Luer 1987
Synonyms
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; 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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