Masdevallia chaparensis T. Hashim 1978 SUBGENUS Masdevallia SECTION Masdevallia SUBSECTION Masdevallia

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Common Name The Chapare Masdevallia [Province in Bolivia]

Flower Size 1 1/5" [3 cm]

This is a cloud forest, small sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte at elevations of 2400 to 2800 meters that is endemic to Bolivia on mossy branches with erect, slender ramicauls enveloped by 2 to 3 thin, loose, tubular sheaths carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptic blade, longly petiolate, subacute leaf that is cuneate below into the channeled petiole and blooms in the spring till summer on a slender, erect to suberect, 2 3/4" to 4 3/4" [7 to 12 cm] long inflorescence that has a bract below the middle and a tubular floral bract and has single, showy flower that is held above the leaves.

Synonyms Masdevallia hajekii Luer 1978

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Systematics of Masdevallia Vol 2 Luer 1986; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum plate 542 Dodson 1982 as Masdevallia hajekii fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 61 No 9 1992 photo; Icones Pleurothallidinarum XXII Systematics of Masdevallia Part 3 Luer 2001 drawing fide; Orchid Digest Vol 72 No 4 2008 photo

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