Masdevallia demissa Rchb.f. 1887 SUBGENUS Masdevallia SECTION Reichenbachianae Woolw. 1896 Photo by © Bogarin, Used under permission of Epidendra Website CR

Another flower Photo courtesy of Patricia Harding.

Common Name The Drooping Masdevallia

Flower Size 1 1/5" [3 cm]

Found in Costa Rica as a small sized, cool growing epiphyte with slender, erect ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 to 3 loose, tubular sheaths carrying a single, coriaceous, narrowly elliptical, obtuse leaf that is narrowly cuneate into the petiole and blooms in the spring on a slender, erect to suberect, single flowered inflorescence arising from low on the ramicaul with a bract above the base and a tubular floral bract.

Synonyms Reichantha demissa (Rchb. f.) Luer 2006

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Lankester's Epidendra Website CR ; Systematics of Masdevallia Vol 2 Luer 1986; Icones Orchidacearum Peruviarum Plate 288 Bennett & Christenson 1995; Icones Pleurothallidinarum XXI Systematics of Masdevallia Part 2 Luer 2000 drawing ok; Icones Pleurothallidinarum XXV Systematics of Masdevallia Part Five 2005

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