Porroglossum sororcula Luer & Sijm 2013 SUBGENUS Porroglossum SECTION Tortae
Photos Wiel Driessen and his Facebook Page
TYPE Drawing by Carl Luer
Common Name The Closely Related Porroglossum
Flower Size
Found in Morona Santiago province of Ecuador in cloud forests at elevations around 1600 meters as a mini-miiature sized, cool growing, caespitose epiphyte with erect ramicauls enveloped by 1 to 2, thin, tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, slightly verrucose, elliptical, acute,contracted below int the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the late summer and early fall on an erect, from low on the ramicaul slender, glabrous peduncle, 3.4 to 4" [8 to 10 cm] long, with a tubular bract near the middle, successively single flowered inflorescence followed by another .08" [2 mm] apart with shorter than the pedicel floral bracts and carryng flowers with fleshy, glabrous sepals pale purple with white tails, transluscent petals and a white rose veined lip.
"This small species of SUBGENUS Porroglossum SECTION Tortae is similar to Porroglossum gerritsenianum Luer & R.Parsons, but differs with a more deeply concave dorsal sepal and synsepal with short, thick, expanded tails, petals witha single angle on the upper margin, none on the lower margin; and a column without stigmatic processes." Luer 2013
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Harvard Papers in Botany, Vol. 18, No. 2, pp. 173 to 196 2013 MISCELLANEOUS NEW SPECIES IN THE PLEUROTHALLIDINAE (ORCHIDACEAE) Carlyle A. Luer & Lisa Thoerle drawing fide; Pleurothallids Neotropical Jewels Vol 1 Karremans & Viera 2020 photo fide
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