Porroglossum echidna

Porroglossum echidna (Rchb.f.) Garay, Svensk Bot. Tidskr. 47: 201 (1953).

Porroglossum echidna (Rchb.f.) Garay, Photo by Albert Tamashausky 

its native range is N. Colombia.

Latinh Name: 

Porroglossum echidna (Rchb.f.) Garay

Synonym:

Masdevallia echidna Rchb.f.

Scaphosepalum echidna (Rchb.f.) Schltr.

English Name:

The Hedgehog Porroglossum (refers to the prickly inflorescence).

Description: 

With stout, erect ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 to 3 tubular sheaths and carrying a single apical, erect, thickly coriaceous, verrucose, petiolate, narrowly obovate to narrowly elliptical, acute leaf that gradually narrows below into the petiole and blooms at any time on a congested, successively few flowering, racemose, densely long pubescent, 10 to 20 cm long, erect inflorescence arising from low on the ramicaul with a bract below the middle and tubular, imbricating floral bracts and holding a single flower well above the leaves.

Distribution:

Colombia.

Ecological:

In cloud forests at elevations around 2500 to 3200 m as a miniature sized, cold growing epiphyte or litho-terrrestrial.

Flowering times:

Blooms in the summer.

Flower size:

2.0 cm.

Cultivation:

Climate: Intermediate

Air Circulation: Medium

Light: Medium

Humidity: Medium

Fertilizer: Bimonthly

Keep plant in partial shade. Plant can be grown in cool to intermediate conditions. Pot the plant in fine bark with perlite or sphagnum moss. Water regularly and keep potting media moist.

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