Porroglossum panguiensis J.McDaniel, J.Portilla & G.Merino 2015 SUBGENUS Porroglossum SECTION Porroglossum Photos/TYPE Drawing by Alphonso Doucette Common Name The El Pangui Porroglossum [Origin of the type]
Flower Size .4" [1 cm]
Found in Zamora-Chinchipe province of Ecuador at elevations around 1400 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cool growing epiphyte with semi-terete, sulcate adaxially, keeled abaxially ramicauls enveloped by 3 sheaths and carryinga single, apical, erct, coriaceous elliptic, acute, gradually narrowing below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the later winter on an erect to horizontal, peduncle glabrous, slender, terete, 4.32" [10.8 cm] long, provided with 2 tubular bracts, congested, successively few flowered inflorescence.
"Most similar to Porroglossum oversteegenianum but differs in the maculate sepaline tails, the rounded apex of the lip and petals with acutely contracted margins below the center." A.Doucette, J.Portilla & G.Merino 2015
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* AOS Bulletin Vol 84 #8 503 A.Doucette, J.Portilla & G.Merino 2015 photo/drawing fide;
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