Porroglossum schramii Luer 1980 SUBGENUS Porroglossum SECTION Porroglossum
Photos by Lourens Grobler ©
TYPE Drawing by Carl Luer
Flower Size 2/3" [1.5 cm]
Common Name Schram's Porroglossum [American Co discoverer of Species current]
Found in Ecuador in cloud forests at elevations around 1600 to 1800 meters as a miniature sized, cool growing lithophyte with blackish, erect, slender ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 to 3 tubular sheaths and carrying a single apical, erect, thickly coriaceous, verrucose, narrowly obovate to elliptical leaf that is narrowly cuneate below into the petiole and blooms at any time on a congested, successively flowering, racemose, 3.6" to 4" [9 to 10 cm] long, erect, slender, glabrous inflorescence arising from low on the ramicaul with a few distant bracts and a tubular floral bract and holding a single flower well above the leaves
There is a great deal of variation in the flower between plants as well as flowers on the same plant.
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/photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 70 #1 2006 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 79 #4 2010 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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