Porroglossum jesupiae Luer 1989
SUBGENUS Porroglossum SECTION Tortae 1987
Photo by © Eric Hunt
Photos by © Ron Parsons and his Flower Shots Website
TYPE Drawing by Carl Luer
Common Name Jesup's Porroglossum [Female American Orchid Enthusiast current
Flower Size .4" [1 cm]
Found in Morona-Santiago province of Ecuador in cloud forests at elevations of 1550 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cool growing epiphyte with blackish, slender, erect ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 to 3 thin, tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apcial, erect to suberect, thickly coriaceous, finely verrucose, elliptical-obovate, obtuse, cuneate below into the slender, petiolate base leaf that blooms in the winter on a slender, erect, smooth, congested, racemose, 2.8" to 3.4" [7 to 8.5 cm] long, successively single, few flowered inflorescence arising from low on the ramicaul with three closely applied, distant bracts and imbricating, tubular floral bracts.
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol VI Systematics of Pleurothallis subgen Ancipita, Scopula and Trisetella Luer 1989 drawing fide; Native Ecuadorina Orchids Vol 4 Dodson 2003 drawing; Orchids of Bolivia Vol 2 Laelinae Vasquez and Ibisch 2004; 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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