Porroglossum porphyreum G.Merino, A.Doucette & Pupulin 2010 SUBGENUS Porroglossum SECTION Porroglossum
Photo by Duane McDowell and his Flickr Orchid Photo Website
Photo by Ecuagenera Orchid Website
Another Flower with longer tails
Photo by © John Varigos
Common Name The Purple Colored Porroglossum
Flower Size .6" [1.5 cm]
Found in Morona-Santiago province of Ecuador in premontane forests on mossy trees at elevations around 1600 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cool growing epiphyte with terete, erect, abbreviated, basally blackish ramicauls enveloped by 2 to 3 tubular, membraneous bracts and carrying a single, apical, coriaceous, elliptic-obovate, obtuse to acute, narrowing below into the conduplicate, petiolate base leaf that blooms at most any time of the year, on a peduncle terete, slender, glabgrousd, 4 to 4.8" [10 to 12 cm] long, congested, successively few flowered inflorescence with tubular, shorter than the pedicel floral bracts and carrying resupinate, non-fragrant flowers.
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Lankesteriana 9: 465 Solano 2010 drawing/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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