Masdevallia tubuliflora Ames 1908 subgen. Masdevallia sect. Masdevallia subsect Minutae Rchb.f ex Woodw. 1896 NO Photo

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Common Name The Tubed Masdevallia [refers to the sepaline tube]

Flower Size 5/8" [1.5 cm]

A miniature, hot to warm growing epiphyte found in Guatemala, Belize, Honduras, Nicaragua and Costa Rica in premontane rainforests at elevations of 350 to 1200 meters with erect, slender ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 to 3 tubular sheaths carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, ellptical, subacute to obtuse leaf that is narrowly cuneate into the petiole blooming on a slender, erect, 2 1/4" to 3 1/2" [6 to 9 cm] long, solitary flowered inflorescence arising from low on the ramicaul with a bract above the base and atubular floral bract holding the waxy flower at leaf height occuring in the mid-winter.

Synonyms Acinopetala tubuliflora (Ames) Luer 2006; Masdevallia ecaudata Schltr. 1918

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Bonplandia Rchb.f 1856; Flora Brasilica Vol XII VI Hoehne 1942; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum plate 1041 Dodson 1984; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1B lieferung 25 1520 - 1584 Brieger 1991; Icones Pleurothallidinarum XXII Systematics of Masdevallia Part 3 Luer 2001; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 2 Dodson 2001 photo fide; Orchid Species of Peru Zelenko Bermudez 2009 photo fide; Orquideas Tesoro de Colombia Ortiz & Uribe 2017 photo/drawing fide;

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