Porroglossum sijmii Luer 2006
SUBGENUS Porroglossum SECTION Tortae
Photo by Eric Hunt ©
Another Angle> Photo by Ron Parsons © 2009 Common Name Sijm's Porroglossum [Dutch Orchid Enthusiast and discoverer of species current]
Flower Size .8" [2 cm]
Found in Zamora-Chinchipe province of Ecuador at elevatins around 2500 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cold growing epiphyte with erect, ramicauls enveloped by 2 to 3 tubualr sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, faintly rugose, elliptical, subacute, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the late winter on a slender, [8 to 9.5 cm] long, successively few flowered, racemose inflorescence arising from low on the ramiucal with a bract below the middle and imbricating, tubular floral bracts.
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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
*Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVIII Luer 2006 drawing 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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