Masdevallia ignea Rchb. f. 1871 SUBGENUS Masdevallia SECTION Masdevallia SUBSECTION Coccineae Veitch 1889 Photo courtesy of Jay Pfahl
Another Clone Photo by © Eric Hunt and His Orchid Website
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Common Name The Fire-Red Masdevallia
Flower Size 3 1/5" [8 cm]
Found in the Eastern Cordillera of Colombia at elevations of 2600 to 3800 meters as a small sized, cold growing terrestrial orchid with stout, erect, ramicauls enveloped baslly by 2 to 3 loose, tubular sheaths and carrying sub erect, elliptic-lanceolate to oblong-lanceolate, coriaceous, dark green leaf that is narrowly cuneate below into the sulcate petiole and has a single flower per erect, slender, terete, 12 to 15" [30 to 37.5 cm] long inflorescence holding the flower well above the leaves occuring in late spring and summer.
Synonyms Masdevallia militaris Rchb. f. & Warsz. 1854
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Beitrage Zur Orchideenkunde Von Colombia 27:152 Schlechter 1924; AOS Bulletin Vol 47 No 9 1978 photo as M militaris; Orquideologia Vol 16 No 1 1983 drawing as M militaris; Orchid Australia Vol 11 No 5 1999 photo; Orchids Australia Vol 12 No 4 2000 photo; AOS Bulletin Vol 72 No 9 2003 photo; Icones Pleurothallidianrum Vol XXV Luer 2003 drawing fide; Libro Rojo de Plantas De Colombia Vol 6 Primera Parte Saenz 2007 photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 72 No 4 2008 photo
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