Porroglossum procul Luer & R.Vásquez 1980

SUBGENUS Porroglossum SECTION Porroglossum

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 The Far Porroglossum [refers to its southernly location]

Flower Size .2" [5 mm]

Found in La Paz department of Bolivia in cloud forests at elevations around 2000 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte with an erect, slender, blackish ramicaul enveloped by 2 to 3, tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, thickly coriaceous, minutely verrucose, elliptical to narrowly obovate, subacute, gradually narrowing below into the blackish petiolate base leaf that blooms in the summer on an erect, glabrous, slender, 2.6 to 3" [6.5 to 7.5 cm] long, successively single, few flowered inflorescence with a few, distant bracts, arising from low on the ramicaul with tubular, imbricating floral bracts.

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References Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol IV Systematics of Acostaea, Condylago and Porroglossum Luer 1987 drawing fide;

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