Porroglossum aureum Luer 1980 SUBGENUS Porroglossum SECTION Porroglossum
Photo by © Eric Hunt
Another Flower with lip in triggered position
Photo courtesy of Danny Lentz ©, plant grown by the Atlanta Botanical Garden
Photo by © John Varigos and his Flickr Orchid Photo Website
TYPE Drawing by Carl Luer
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Common Name The Golden Porroglossum [refers to the flower color]
Flower Size 2/5" [1 cm]
Found in northern Ecuador in cloud forests at elevations of 1900 to 2500 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte , with an erect, slender ramicaul enveloped by 2 to 3 tubular sheaths and a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, subverrucose, long petiolate, narrowly obovate, subacute leaf that gradually narrows to the petiole that blooms in the summer on a congested, successively few flowered, 5" to 5 1/2" [12 to 13 cm] long, racemose inflorescence with a few widely spaced bracts and tubular, imbricating floral bracts and a single flower at a time, held above the leaves.
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol IV Systematics of Acostaea, Condylago and Porroglossum Luer 1987 drawing fide; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 4 Dodson 2003 drawing ok; Orchid Digest Vol 70 #1 2006 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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