Masdevallia dynastes Luer 1979 SUBGENUS Nidificia Luer 2000 Photo by © Lourens Grobler

Flower Closeup Photo by © Eric Hunt and His Orchid Website

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Common Name The Excellent Masdevallia

Flower Size 3/8" [1 cm]

Found in Ecuador in cloud forests at altitudes of 1400 to 2800 meters as a miniature sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte and sometimes terrestrial orchid with slender, erect, green with purple dots ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 to 3 close, tubular sheaths carrying a single, apcial, erect, coriaceous, petiolate, elliptical, subacute leaf that is gradually narrowed below into the channeled petiole which blooms on a slender, erect, single flowered inflorescence arising from low on the ramicaul with a bract below the middle and an inflated floral bract.

Synonyms Buccella dynastes (Luer) Luer 2006

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Systematics of Masdevallia Vol 2 Luer 1986; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 3 Dodson 2002 photo fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum XXV Systematics of Masdevallia Part Five 2005 drawing fide; Orchidaceae Masdevallia and Affiliates Dodson & Luer 2009 as Buccella dynastes drawing fide

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