Masdevallia laucheana John Fraser 1894 SUBGENUS Masdevallia SECTION Minutae Rchb.f Ex Woolw. 1896

Another Angle Photo by © Walter Schug and His MesoAmerican Orchid Page

Specimen Plant Photo by © Daniel Jimenez

Common Name Lauche's Masdevallia [Director of Vienna Botanical Garden 1800's]

Flower Size 3/4" [2 cm]

Found in Costa Rica in primary forests at elevations of 950 to 1500 meters as a warm growing epiphyte with erect, slender ramicauls enveloped basaly by 2 to 3 imbricate, tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, narrowly elliptical-obovate, subacute to obtuse, gradually narrowing below into the cuneate, petiolate base leaf that blooms in the fall on a slender, suberect, 1.6" to 2.4" [4 cm to 6 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence arising from low on the ramicaul and with a bract near the base and tubular floral bracts carrying flowers that often smell of Vanilla

Synonyms Acinopetala laucheana (John Fraser) Luer 2006

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Lankester's Epidendra Website CR ; AOS Bulletin Vol 31 No 4 1962 photo; Icones Pleurothallidinarum XXII Systematics of Masdevallia part 3 Luer 2001 drawing fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXIX Luer 2007 as Acinopetala laucheana

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