Porroglossum muscosum

Another great miniature species hailing from elevations between 1600 and 3000m in Venezuela, Ecuador and Colombia. We have the purple and gold flowering form of this particular species. Flowers are small but showy and open at the ends of proportionally long, pipe-cleaner-like spikes. The flowers of this species exhibit a strange 'muscular' lip mechanism for trapping pollinators seen here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnk4-Gr7IN4