Porroglossum miguelangelii G.Merino, A.Doucette & Pupulin 2010 SUBGENUS Porroglossum SECTION Porroglossum
Photo by Franco Pupulin
Photos by Pontus Aratoun and his Miniature Orchid Website
Common Name Miguel Angel's Porroglossum [M Soto Mexican Botanist and Orchid Enthusiast early 2009]
Flower Size .6" [1.5 cm]
Found in Ecuador without specific locality but in premontane to lower montane cloud forests on mossy tree trunks at elevations around 1800 meters as a mini-mininature sized, cool growing epiphyte with terete, erect, abbreviated, blackish at the base ramicauls enveloped by 2 to 3 tubular sheaths and carryijg a single, apical, erect, coriceous, spathulate, elliptical obovate, narrowing below into the conduplicate, petiolate base leaf that blooms in the winter on an erect, glabrous, 2 to 3.8" [5 to 9.5 cm] long, congested, successively single, few flowered inflorescence with tubular floral bracts.
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Lankesteriana 9: 460. G.Merino, A.Doucette & Pupulin 2010 drawing fide; Pleurothallids Neotropical Jewels Vol 1 Karremans & Viera 2020 photo fide to the 1st photo
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