Porroglossum actrix Luer & R.Escobar 1991
SUBGENUS Porroglossum SECTION Porroglossum
Photos by © Patricia Harding
One Lip Triggered and one relaxed
Photo by © Jay Pfahl
TYPE Drawing by Carl Luer
Common Name The Performer Porroglossum [An allusion to a tightrope walker and the flower shape on the inflorescence]
Flower Size 1.6" [4 cm]
Found in Putumayo department of Colombia on the eastern slopes at elevations around 2000 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte with erect, slender ramicauls enveloped by 2 to 3 tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, ellipical, obtuse, narrowing below into the cuneate base leaf that blooms in the spring on a congested, erect, smooth, slender, 1.6 to 3" [4 to 7.5 cm] long, successively few flowered, racemose inflorescnece arising from low on the ramicaul with 2 to 3, closely applied, distant bracts and imbricating floral bracts.
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Icones Pleurothallidinarum VIII Systematics of Lepanthopsis, Octomeria subgenus Pleurothallopsis, Restrepiella, Salpistele and Teagueia Luer 1991 drawing fide; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 4 COS 1992 photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 71 No 1 2007 photo fide; Orquideologia Vol 27 #2 2010 photo fide; Pleurothallids Neotropical Jewels Vol 1 Karremans & Viera 2020 photo fide; Orchids Masdevallia with its segregates including Dracula Zelenko 2014 photo fide;
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