Porroglossum dalstroemii Luer & Hirtz 1987 SUBGENUS Porroglossum SECTION Tortae 1987
Photo by © Lourens Grobler
Photo courtesy of Patricia Harding.
Photo courtesy of Kjell Nilsson.
TYPE Drawing by Carl Luer
Common Name Dalstroem's Porroglossum [Swedish Orchid Enthusiast]
Flower Size .4" [1 cm]
Found in Ecuador in mossy cloud forests at elevations of 1700 to 1800 meters as a miniature sized, cool growing epiphyte with erect, slender, blackish ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 to 3 tubular sheaths carryig a single apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptical, obtuse to subacute leaf with the base cuneate into the slender, elongate petiole and blooms in the winter on an erect, slender, 4.8" [12 cm] long, congested, successively single flowered, racemose inflorescence with 2 distant bracts and tubular floral bracts all arising from low on the ramicaul and has a few, non-resupinate flowers.
Synonyms Specklinia caldensis (Hoehne & Schltr.) Luer 2004
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Lankester's Epidendra Website CR; * Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol IV Systematics of Acostaea, Condylago and Porroglossum Luer 1987 drawing fide; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 4 Dodson 2003 drwawing/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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