Masdevallia alexandri Luer 1980 subgen. Meleagris Luer 1986 Photo courtesy of © Lourens Grobler

Another Flower Photo courtesy of Eric Hunt, plant grown by Hanging Gardens

Common Name Alexander Hirtz' Masdevallia [German Orchid Collector in Ecuador- late 20th cen]

Flower Size 3/8" [1 cm]

Found in Ecuador as a miniature sized, cool growing epiphyte occuring in cloud forests at elevations of 1500 to 2200 meters with slender, erect ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 to 3 thin, tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, suberect, thinly coriaceous, petiolate, elliptical, acute l;eaf that is cuneate below into the slender, channeled petiole where it blooms on an erect, slender, 3 5/8" [to 9 cm] long, successively few flowered inflorescence arising from low on the ramicaul with thin imbricating floral bracts and occuring in cultivation in the spring and carrying a single flower at a time.

Synonyms Rodrigoa alexandri (Luer) Braas 1982

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Systematics of Madevallia Vol 2 Luer 1986; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 3 COS 2002; Icones Pleurothallidinarum XXV Systematics of Masdevallia Part Five 2005