Masdevallia hoeijeri Luer & Hirtz 1986 SUBGENUS Pygmaeia SECTION Aphanes Luer 2000 Photo by © Milan Vagner

Side View Photo by © Ron Parsons

Plant and Flowers Photo courtesy of © Lourens Grobler

Common Name Hoeijer's Masdevallia [Swedish Botanist in Ecuador and codiscoverer of species current]

Flower Size .4" [1 cm]

Found in west central Colombia and southeastern Ecuador on tiny branches of short trees in wet cloud forests at elevations of 1500 to 2600 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte with slender, suberect ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 to 3 thin, tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, coriaceous, narrowly obovate, subacute, gradually narrowing below into the subpetiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring and summer on a slender, weak, suberect, .4 to .6 " [1 to 1.5 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence arising from low on the ramicaul with a bract near the base and a thin, infundibular floral bract.

Synonyms Diodonopsis hoeijeri (Luer & Hirtz) Pridgeon & M.W.Chase 2001; Pteroon hoeijeri (Luer & Hirtz) Luer 2006

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 6 COS 1998 photo fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum XXI Masdevallia Part 2 Luer 2000 drawing ; Lindleyana Vol 16 No 4 2001 as Diodonopsis hoeijeri; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 3 Dodson 2002 photo fide; Libro Rojo de Plantas De Colombia Vol 6 Primera Parte Saenz 2007; Orchidaceae Masdevallia and Affiliates Dodson & Luer 2009 as Pteroon hoeijeri photo/drawing fide;

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