Masdevallia erinacea Rchb.f 1877 SUBGENUS Pygmaeia SECTION Pygmaeae Luer 1986 Photo by © Eric Hunt and His Orchid Website.
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Plant and Flowers Photo courtesy of Patricia Harding
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Common Name The Hedgehog Masdevallia
Flower Size 5/8" [1.5 cm]
This miniature species hails from Costa Rica, Panam, Colombia and Ecuador in premontane rain forests and is a cool to warm growing epiphyte found at altitudes of 700 to 1400 meters with erect stems covered with tubular bracts and a single, apical subcoriaceous, linear-lanceolate leaf that has single flowered, 1 1/2" to 2 3/4" [4 to 7 cm] long inflorescence occuring in the summer with the flowers held just above the leaves. Can be grown either mounted or in a pot, given humid conditions, good air circulation and never allow it to dry out completely.
Synonyms Diodonopsis erinacea (Rchb. f.) Pridgeon & M.W. Chase 2001; Masdevallia echinocarpa Schltr. 1920; Masdevallia horrida Teusch. & Garay 1960; Scaphosepalum erinaceum (Rchb. f.) Schltr. 1920
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Die Orchideen der Sudamerikanischen Kordillerenstaaten II Colombia Schlechter 1920 as M echinocarpa; AOS Bulletin Vol 29 No 1 1960 photo/drawing as M horrida; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum plate 138 Dodson 1980; AOS Bulletin Vol 51 No 3 1982 photo; Systematics of Masdevallia Vol 2 Luer 1986; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 2 COS 1991; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum plate 1548 Atwood 1993; Icones Pleurothallidinarum XXI Systematics of Masdevallia Part 2 Luer 2000; Lindleyana Vol 16 No 4 2001 as Diodonopsis erinacea; Vanishing Beauty; Native Costa Rican Orchids Vol 1 Pupulin 2005 as Diodonopsis erinacea; Orquideas de la Serrania del Baudo Misas Urreta 2006; 2/09 - 1/10
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