Masdevallia karineae Nauray ex Luer 2000

SUBGENUS Masdevallia SECTION Masdevallia SUBSECTION Masdevallia Photo by © Ron Parsons Picasa Orchid Photo Website

Another Angle Photo by © Lincolnshire Orchid Group Website

Common Name Karine's Masdevallia [Daughter of Peruvian Orchid Enthusiast current]

Flower Size .8" [2 cm]

Found in the department of Cuzco Peru in cold wet cloud forests at elevations around 2750 meters as aminiature sized, cold growing epiphyte with a slender, erect ramicaul enveloped by a loose tubular sheath and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, narrowly elliptic, subacute, narrowly cuneate below into theelongate petiolate base leaf that blooms in the winter on an erect, 2.2" [5.5 cm] long, single flowered infloresccence arising from low on the ramicaul with a bract above the base

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XX Luer 2000 drawing fide; A Treasure of Masdevallia Vol 25 Luer & Dalstroem 2000 watercolor/drawing fide; Icones Orchidacearum Peruviarum Plate 682 Bennett & Christenson 2001 drawing fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum XXII Part 3 Luer 2001 drawing fide; Las Orquideas del Peru Izerskyy & Bezverhov 2011 photo fide

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