Porroglossum merinoi Pupulin & A.Doucette 2010

Photo by Ecuagenera Orchid Website

Common Name Merino's Porroglossum [Ecuadorian Orchid Researcher in the Pleurothalidinae and collector of the type current]

Flower Size 3/5" [1.5 cm]

Found in Morona-Santiago province of Ecuador on mossy trees in cloud forests at elevations around 1800 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cool growing epiphyte with erect, slender ramicauls enveloped by 2 to 3, tubular, membraneous sheths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptic-oblanceolate, sub-verrucose, narrowing below into the conduplicate, long petiolate base leaf that blooms in the fall on a suberect, congested, peduncle terete, slnender, galbrous, provided with 4 to 5, widely spaced, tubular bracts, to 6" [125 cm] long, overall, successively few flowered inflorescence with tubular, shorter than the pedicel floral bracts and carrying resupinate, partially spreading, fragrant, clove scented flowers

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Lankesteriana 9: 462 Solano 2010 drawing 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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