Masdevallia caloptera Rchb.f 1874 SUBGENUS Amanda SECTION Amandae Rchb.f 1874
Inflorescence Photos courtesy of © Milan Vágner.
Another Angle Photo courtesy of © Lourens Grobler
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Common Name The Beautiful-Winged Masdevallia
Flower Size 3/4" [2 cm]
A dwarf, epiphytic, Colombian, Ecuadorian and Peruvian species found in dense, moist forests at elevations of 1800 to 2600 meters with erect, slender ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 to 3 tubular sheaths abd carrying a single, apical, oblanceolate to narrowly spathulate, leaf that is narrowing to a conduplicate base and blooms in the winter in cultivation on a erect, 6" [15 cm] long, terete, several [2 to 9] flowered inflorescence arising from low on the ramicaul with a bract below the middle and anothewr at the base as well as thin, infloated floral bracts that envelop the pedicel and ovary and flowers held well above the leaves.
Synonyms Masdevallia biflora Regel 1891; Spilotantha caloptera (Rchb.f.) Luer 2006
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Systematics of Masdevallia Vol 2 Luer 1986; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 3 COS 2002; Icones Pleurothallidinarum XXV Systematics of Masdevallia Part Five 2005
