Masdevallia ivanii Luer & V.N.M.Rao 2006 Photo by © Lourens Grobler

Another Angle Photo by © Ellis Eyre

Common Name Ivan's Masdevallia [Ecuadorian Nurseryman Ivan Acaro current]

Flower Size .8" [2 cm]

Found in Morona-Santiago: Cordillera del Condor Ecuador at elevations around 1500 meters meters as a mini-mniature sized, warm growing epiphyte with blackish, erect, slender ramicauls enveloped by 2 to 3, loose, tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, ellitpical, subacute, gradually narrowing below into the cuneate, blackish petiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring on an erect, 2.4" [6 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence arising from low on the ramicaul, with a bract near the base and a tubular floral bracts..

Synonyms

References IPNI; *Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVIII Luer 2006 drawing fide; Orchidaceae Masdevallia and Affiliates Dodson & Luer 2009 drawing fide;

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