Porroglossum amethystinum (Rchb. f.) Garay 1967 SUBGENUS Porroglossum SECTION Porroglossum
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Photo by © Peter Bryder
Photo courtesy of Eric Hunt, plant grown by Marni Turkel
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Common Name The Lilac Colored Porroglossum
Flower Size 1" [2.5 cm]
Found in Ecuador and Peru in very wet montane forests at elevations of 1300 to 2350 meters as a mini-miniature sized, warm to cold growing epiphyte or terrestrial in clay roadside embankments with a short, erect, slender ramicaul enveloped by 2 to 3 tubular sheaths and a single, apical, coriaceous, long petiolate, narrowly obovate, acute to subacute leaf that gradually narrows to the petiole giving rise to a congested, successively few-flowered, racemose, 6 to 10" [15 to 25 cm] long inflorescence with well spaced tubular bracts and tubular, imbricating floral bracts occurring at most any time of the year.
Synonyms *Masdevallia amethystina Rchb. f. 1878; Scaphosepalum amethystinum (Rchb. f.) Schltr. 1921;
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Otia Botanica Hamburgensia Rchb.f 1878 as Masdevallia amethestina; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 273 Dodson 1980 drawing ok; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol IV Systematics of Acostaea, Condylago and Porroglossum Luer 1987 drawing fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 70 No 1 2001; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 4 Dodson 2003 photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 70 #1 2006 photo fide; Orchid Species of Peru Zelenko & Bermudez 2009 photo fide; Pleurothallids Neotropical Jewels Vol 1 Karremans & Viera 2020 photo fide
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