Porroglossum zelenkoi Luer & Sijm 2012 SUBGENUS Porroglossum SECTION Porroglossum
Photo Wiel Driessen and his Flickr Orchid Photo Page
TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer
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Common Name Zelenko's Porroglossum [American Illustrator and Orchid Enthusiast current]
Flower Size .8" [2 cm]
Found in Huanaco department of Peru at elevations around 1650 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cool growing, caespitose epiphyte with erect ramicauls enveloped by 1 to 2 tubular sheaths and carrying a single, erect, rigidly coriaceous, with longitudinal, elevated, veins, elliptical, acute, contracted below into the slender, petiolate base leaf that blooms in the late summer and early fall on an erect, slender, arising from low on the ramicaul, peduncle glabrous, to 3.2" [8 cm] long, witha tubular bract below the middle and another near the base, single flowered inflorescence with tubular, shorter than the pedicel floral bract and carrying fleshy flowers with rose brown sepals and tails, transluscent petals and a purple brown lip with white across the apical margin.
"This species is similar to Porroglossum gerritsenianum Luer & R.Parsons, but the leaf is larger with raised longitudinal veins, and the blade of the lip is rhombiform with shorter, erect lateral lobes, instead of obtriangular with longer, nonerect lateral lobes." Luer & Sijm 2012
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Harvard Papers in Botany, Vol. 17, No. 2, pp. 333 to 368 2012 MISCELLANEOUS NEW SPECIES IN THE PLEUROTHALLIDINAE (ORCHIDACEAE) Carlyle A. Luer drawing fide; Orchids Masdevallia with its segregates including Dracula Zelenko 2014 photo fide;
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