Porroglossum teretilabia Luer & Teague 1991 SUBGENUS Porroglossum SECTION Porroglossum
Photo by Ron Parsons
Photo courtesy of Eric Hunt
TYPE Drawing by Carl Luer
Common Name The Pencil-Lipped Porroglossum
Flower Size 2/5" [1 cm]
Found in southrn Ecuador at elevations of 1500 to 1700 meters as a mini-miniature, cool growing epiphyte with blackish, slender, erect, ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 to 3 tubular sheaths carrying a single, erect, coriaceous, elliptical-obovate, obtuse with the base cuneate into the slender petiolate base leaf and flowers in the spring on a congested, successively few flowered, smooth, slender, 3.6 to 6" [9 to 15 cm] long, racemose inflorescence arising from low on the ramicaul with 2 to 3, distant, tubular bracts at intervals all along and imbricating floral bracts holding the resupinate flower with a semiterete blade of the lip
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Icones Pleurothallidinarum VIII Systematics of Lepanthopsis, Octomeria subgenus Pleurothallopsis, Restrepiella, Salpistele and Teagueia Luer 1991 drawing fide; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 4 Dodson 2003 photo fide; 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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