Masdevallia hians Linden & Rchb.f. 1854 SUBGENUS Masdevallia SECTION Masdevallia SUBSECTION Masdevallia Original Drawing by © Padre Pedro Ortiz Conserved at the Herbario de la Universidad Javeriana, Bogota Colombia

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Common Name The Gaping Masdevallia [refers to the sepaline cup]

Flower Size .8" [2 cm]

Found in Norte de Santander Colombia in subparamo forests at elevations of 2600 to 3250 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cold growing epiphyte with erect, slender, blackish ramicauls enveloped by 2 to 3 thin, tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, narrowly elliptical-obovate, acute to subacute, narrowly cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring and fall on a slender, erect, 1.6 to 2.6" [4 to 6.5 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence arising from low on the ramicaul with a bract above the base.

CAUTION I am not sure of this determination so please use with caution

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Bonplandia Rchb.f 1854; Bonplandia Rchb.f 1855; Orquideologia Vol 16 No 1 1983; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXII Luer 2001 drawing hmm; Libro Rojo de Plantas De Colombia Vol 6 Primera Parte Saenz 2007

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