Porroglossum oversteegenianum Luer & Sijm 2010 SUBGENUS Porroglossum SECTION Porroglossum
Photo by © Ron Parsons
Photo by © The Brabant Orchid Photo Website
TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer and the The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
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Common Name or Meaning Pieter Oversteegen's Porroglossum [Dutch Orchid Enthusiast and Editor of Orchids In Color 2000's]
Flower Size .2" [5 mm]
Found in Ecuador without locality as a mini-miniature sized epiphyte with an erect, slender ramicaul enveloped by 2 thin, tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, thickly coriaceous, slightly verrucose, elliptical-obovate, subacute to obtuse, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the late summer and early fall on an ascending, smooth, slender, 3.2" [8 cm] long, successively single, few flowered inflorescence with a few, distant bracts, arising from the base of the ramicaul with a tubular floral bract.
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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXXI Luer 2010 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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