Porroglossum teaguei Luer 1980 SUBGENUS Porroglossum SECTION Porroglossum
Photo by © Ron Hanko and his Flickr Orchid Photo Website
Photo by © Patricia Harding
Photo courtesy of Eric Hunt, plant grown by Dan Newman of Hanging Gardens
TYPE Drawing by Carl Luer
Common Name Teague's Porroglossum [American Botanist 20th century]
Flower Size 1.2" [3 cm]
Found in Ecuador on road embankments at elevations around 2200 meters as a miniature sized, cold growing epiphyte or terrestrial that has an erect, slender, ramicaul enveloped by 2 to 3 tubular sheaths carrying a single, apical, erect, criaceous, subverrucose, narrowly, obovate, subacute leaf that gradually narrows to the elongate petiole, giving rise to a congested, successively few flowered, 5.2 to 8" [13 to 20 cm] long, racemose inflorescence with a few widely spaced bracts and tubular, imbricating floral bracts that blooms in the spring and holds the flowers well above the leaves.
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol IV Systematics of Acostaea, Condylago and Porroglossum Luer 1987 drawing fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 70 No 1 2001 photo; 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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