Masdevallia discolor Luer & R.Escobar 1982 SUBGENUS Masdevallia SECTION Masdevallia SUBSECTION Caudatae Veitch 1889 Photo by © Eric Hunt and His Orchid Website.

Flower Closeup Photo courtesy of © Lourens Grobler

Common Name The Different Colored Masdevallia

Flower Size 2" [5 cm]

Found in Boyaca and Cundinamarca Colombia in the eastern Cordillera in wet cloud forests at elevations around 2400 to 2800 meters as a miniature sized, cold growing epiphyte with blackish, erect, slender ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 to 3 loose, tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptical, obtuse to rounded, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the winter and spring on a slender, erect, 4 to 4.4" [10 to 11 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence arising from low on the ramicaul with a bract near the base and a tubular floral bracts.

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Bonplandia Rchb.f 1856 as M superflua; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 6 COS 1998 photo ok; Icones Pleurothallidinarum XXIII Systematics of Masdevallia Part Four Luer 2002 drawing fide; Libro Rojo de Plantas De Colombia Vol 6 Primera Parte Saenz 2007

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