Porroglossum josei Luer 1995 SUBGENUS Porroglossum SECTION Porroglossum
Photo courtesy of © Lourens Grobler
Another View with triggered lip
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Common Name Jose's Porroglossum [Jose Portillo Ecuadorian Orchid Collector]
Flower Size .6" [1.5 cm]
Found in Ecuador at elevations around 1000 meters as a mini-miniature sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with erect, slender ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 to 3 tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, verrucose, elliptical, obtuse, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms at most any time of the yhear on a congested, successively few, single flowered, racemose inflorescence arising from low on the ramicaul and has tubular floral bracts.
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; ">IPNI ; *Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XII Systematics of Brachionidium 1995 drawing fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 70 No 1 2001 photo fide; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 4 Dodson 2003 photo fide; Australian Orchid Review Vol 69 No 4 2004 photo; Orchid Digest Vol 70 #1 2006 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 78 #4 2009 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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