Porroglossum amethystinum (Rchb. f.) Garay 1967 SUBGENUS Porroglossum SECTION Porroglossum
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Photo by © Peter Bryder
Photo courtesy of Eric Hunt, plant grown by Marni Turkel
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Drawing by © Carl Luer
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Common Name The Lilac Colored Porroglossum
Flower Size 1" [2.5 cm]
Found in Ecuador and Peru in very wet montane forests at elevations of 1300 to 2350 meters as a mini-miniature sized, warm to cold growing epiphyte or terrestrial in clay roadside embankments with a short, erect, slender ramicaul enveloped by 2 to 3 tubular sheaths and a single, apical, coriaceous, long petiolate, narrowly obovate, acute to subacute leaf that gradually narrows to the petiole giving rise to a congested, successively few-flowered, racemose, 6 to 10" [15 to 25 cm] long inflorescence with well spaced tubular bracts and tubular, imbricating floral bracts occurring at most any time of the year.
"The peduncles are unusually long and slender, often bending with the weight of the raceme. The flowers, normally resupinate, are bright rose in color and the apex of the lip is purple black. Sometimes the pedicel bends incompletely, thus bearing the flower with the lip more or less uppermost. The tail of the dorsal sepal is short and acutely reflexed, the tails of the lateral sepals are long and filiform. The callus at the base of the lip is low and smooth. Luer 1991
Synonyms *Masdevallia amethystina Rchb. f. 1878; Scaphosepalum amethystinum (Rchb. f.) Schltr. 1921;
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Otia Botanica Hamburgensia Rchb.f 1878 as Masdevallia amethestina; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 273 Dodson 1980 drawing ok; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol IV Systematics of Acostaea, Condylago and Porroglossum Luer 1987 drawing fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 70 No 1 2001; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 4 Dodson 2003 photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 70 #1 2006 photo fide; Orchid Species of Peru Zelenko & Bermudez 2009 photo fide; Pleurothallids Neotropical Jewels Vol 1 Karremans & Viera 2020 photo fide
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