!Porroglossum mordax (Rchb. f.) Luer 1970 SUBGENUS Porroglossum SECTION Porroglossum
Plant and Flower in situ Antioquia 3/20
Photos by Jay Pfahl
Photo by Jorge Mario Munera
Photo by Patricia Harding
Photo by © Lourens Grobler
Photo by Eric Hunt, Plant grown by Dan Newman of Hanging Gardens.
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Common Name The Snappish Porroglossum [refers to the fierce shape of the flower]
Flower Size .4" [1 cm]
Found in central and southwestern Colombia at elevations of 1700 to 2400 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cool to cold growing, caespitose epiphyte. This orchid has erect ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 to 3 scarious sheaths and carries a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, narrowly elliptic to narrowly obovate, subacute, subverrucose leaf with a long petiole. The large blooms are produced in succession on an erect, 4 to 5" [10 to 15 cm] long stem that holds the few, successively single flowers well above the leaves and can occur at any time of the year.
Synonyms Lothiania mordax (Rchb. f.) Kraenzl. 1924; Masdevallia colombiana (Schltr.) P.H. Allen 1948; *Masdevallia mordax Rchb. f. 1886; Porroglossum colombianum Schlechter 1920; Scaphosepalum antioquiense Kraenzl. 1922
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Die Orchideen der Sudamerikanischen Kordillerenstaaten II Colombia Schlechter 1920 as P colombianum; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol IV Systematics of Acostaea, Condylago and Porroglossum Luer 1987 drawing fide; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 4 COS 1992 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 70 No 1 2001 photo fide; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1C lieferung 42 - 43 pg 2626 - 2762 Brieger 2001 as P colombianum; 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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