Porroglossum teaguei Luer, Phytologia 46: 381 (1980).
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| Porroglossum teaguei Luer, Photo by Wiel Driessen |
its native range is Ecuador (Pichincha).
Latinh Name:
Porroglossum teaguei Luer
Synonym:
No synonyms are recorded for this name.
English Name:
Teague's Porroglossum (American Botanist 20th century).
Description:
It has an erect, slender, ramicaul enveloped by 2 to 3 tubular sheaths carrying a single, apical, erect, criaceous, subverrucose, narrowly, obovate, subacute leaf that gradually narrows to the elongate petiole, giving rise to a congested, successively few flowered, 5.2 to 8" [13 to 20 cm] long, racemose inflorescence with a few widely spaced bracts and tubular, imbricating floral bracts that blooms in the spring and holds the flowers well above the leaves.
Distribution:
Ecuador.
Ecological:
As a miniature sized, cold growing epiphyte or terrestrial on road embankments at elevations around 2200 m.
Flowering times:
Blooms in the spring.
Flower size:
3.0 cm.
Cultivation:
Grow in cool to intermediate temperatures. Can be grown potted in sphagnum moss or mounted on wood. The medium it is grown in should be kept moist.
Type:
Collector Team:
C.A.Luer 5299
Type Herbaria:
holotype SEL
Distribution Of Types:
Ecuador (Western South America, Southern America)
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