Masdevallia macrogenia (Arango) Luer & R.Escobar 1978 SUBGENUS Masdevallia SECTION Dentatae Luer 2000

Photo by © Karl Senghas and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

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Common Name The Large Chin Masdevallia [refers to the prominent mentum

Flower Size .8" [2 cm]

Found in Antioquia Colombia in rainforests and foothills at elevations around 1200 to 1500 meters as a mini-miniature sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with stout, erect, ramicauls enveloped by 2 to 3, loose, tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, thickly coriaceous, elliptical-obovate, obtuse, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the later spring and summer on a slender, suberect to horizontal, 5" [12.5 cm] long, successively few flowered inflorescence arising from low on the ramicaul with a bract near the base

CAUTION I am not sure of this determination so please use with caution.

Synonyms Masdevallia estradae var. ludibunda (Rchb.f.) Woolward 1892

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXIII Luer 2002 drawing spots? hmm; Libro Rojo de Plantas De Colombia Vol 6 Primera Parte Saenz 2007

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