Masdevallia infracta Lindley 1833 subgen. Masdevallia sect. Polyanthae subsect. Alaticaules {Krzl.] Luer 1986 Photo by © Eric Hunt and His Orchid Website
Purple Color Form Photo courtesy of Dale and Deni Borders.
Flower Closeup Photo courtesy of © Lourens Grobler
Yellow clonal form Photo courtesy of Dale and Deni Borders.
Plant and Flowers Photo courtesy of Jean Claude George.
Plant and Flowers ensitu Minas Gerais Brazil Photo courtesy of Patricia Harding.
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Common Name The Crooked Masdevallia
Flower Size to 2 1/2" long [to 6.5 cm]
This cool to hot growing, small sized, tufted epiphytic species with erect leaves is from the organ Mountains of Brazil and Bolivia and grows in montane forests at elevations of 1100 to 2000 meters with stout, erect ramicauls enveloped by 2 to 3 tubular sheaths carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, narrowly elliptical, acute to subacute leaf with the base narrowly cuneate into the petiole that blooms in the summer with an erect, to 7" [17.5 cm] long, congested, slender, erect, round to triquetrous inflorescence arising from low on the ramicaul, with a basal bract and thin, imbricating, fugacious floral bracts and from 1 to 5 flowers that open in succession, held at or above the leaves.
Synonyms Alaticaulia infracta (Lindl.) Luer 2006; Masdevallia albida Pinel 1868; Masdevallia aristata Barb. Rod. 1877; Masdevallia aurantiaca Lindl. 1836; Masdevallia forgetiana Kraenzl. 1895; Masdevallia infracta var aristata [Barb. Rodr.] Cogn. 1896; Masdevallia infracta var purpurea Rchb.f 1833; Masdevallia longicaudata LeMaire 1868; Masdevallia tridentata Lindl. 1836; Masdevallia triquetra Schweidw. 1839
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Systematics of Madevallia Vol 2 Luer 1986; Icones Orchidacearum Peruviarum Plate 288 Bennett & Christenson 1995; Icones Pleurothallidinarum XIX Systematics of Masdevallia Part 1 Luer 2000; Icones Pleurothallidinarum XXV Systematics of Masdevallia Part Five 2005; Orquideas Da Chapada Diamantina Brito & Cribb 2005
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Masdevallia infracta Lindley 1833 var alba
A white form of the previous species.
