Masdevallia pumila Poepp. & Endl. 1837 SUBGENUS Masdevallia SECTION Masdevallia SUBSECTION Masdevallia Photo courtesy of © Ron Hanko
Specimen Plant Photo courtesy of Eric Hunt, Plant grown by Marni Turkel
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Common Name The Dwarf Masdevallia
Flower Size 1 1/2" [4 cm]
A Venezuelan, Colombian, Ecuadorian, Peruvian and Bolivian miniature epiphyte from wet montane and cloud forests on tree trunks at 500 to 2350 meters in elevation that is a warm to cold growing orchid with blackish, erect, slender ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 to 3 thin, tubular sheaths carrying a single apical, erect, coriaceous, narrowly elliptic, acute leaf that gradually narrows into the indistinct, blackish petiole that blooms with a solitary flower on a slender, semi-pendant inflorescence arising from low on the ramicaul with a thin sheath near the base and a thin, tubular floral bract holding the flower below the leaf occuring in the winter and spring.
Synonyms Masdevallia filamentosa Kraenzl. 1925; Masdevallia grandiflora C. Schweinf. 1951; Masdevallia tenuipes Schltr. 1920
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Bonplandia Rchb.f 1855; Xenia Orchidaceae Rchb.f 1854 drawing fide; Die Orchideen der Sudamerikanischen Kordillerenstaaten II Colombia Schlechter 1920 as M tenuipes; Flora de Venezuela Foldats Volumen XV Part 3 1970; Systematics of Masdevallia Vol 2 Luer 1986; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum plate 550 Dodson 1982 drawing fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum XXII Systematics of Masdevallia Part 3 Luer 2001 drawing fide; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 3 Dodson 2002 photo ok; Libro Rojo de Plantas De Colombia Vol 6 Primera Parte Saenz 2007; Orchid Digest Vol 72 No 4 2008 photo; Orchid Species of Peru Zelenko Bermudez 2009 photo fide; Orchidaceae Masdevallia and Affiliates Dodson & Luer 2009 drawing fide;
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