Masdevallia calura Rchb. f. 1883 SUBGENUS Masdevallia SECTION Reichenbachianae Woolw. 1896 Photo by © Eric Hunt and His Orchid Website

Plant and Flower Photo by © Daniel Jimenez.

Side View Of Flower Photo courtesy of Patricia Harding.

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Common Name The Long-Sepaled Masdevallia

Flower Size 3 1/2" [9 cm]

Found in Costa Rica in montane rainforests at elevations of 200 to 2000 meters as a miniature sized, warm to cold growing epiphyte with erect stems covered by 2 to 3 tubular bracts with a single, apical, coriaceous, narrowly obovate leaf that blooms on an erect to arching, 3" to 4 3/4" [7 to 12 cm] long, few flowered inflorescence arising on a mature stem with the single successive flower held above the leaves and occuring in the summer.

Synonyms Reichantha calura (Rchb.f.) Luer 2006

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Lankester's Epidendra Website CR ; Repert. Sp. Nov. Regni. Veg. Beih. 19: 276. Costa Rica Schlechter 1923; Systematics of Masdevallia Vol 2 Luer 1986; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum plate 1545 Atwood 1993 drawing fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum XXI Systematics of Masdevallia Part 2 Luer 2000 drawing fide

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