Masdevallia carrillana Ortiz 2009 SUBGENUS Teagueia Luer 1986
Side View of Flower Photos by © Jay Pfahl
to
Common Name Carrillo's Masdevallia [Colombian Orchid Grower extrordinaire current]
Flower Size 1" wide x 2.4" [2.5 cm wide]
Found in the Department of Narino in southern Colombia at elevations around 2000 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte with erect, slender ramicauls enveloped by a tubular, scarious, rough sheath and carrying a single, apical, erect, erect, coriaceous, oblong-elliptic, subobtuse, indented apically, tapering below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring through fall on an erect, 4" [10 cm] long, successively single flowered inflorescence arising from the base of the ramicaul with a funnel-shaped floral bract.
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Orquideologia Vol 26 No 1 2009 photo;
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
