Masdevallia macrura Rchb.f. 1874 SUBGENUS Cucullatia Luer 2002 Photo by © Eric Hunt and his Orchid Species Photo Website
Flower Closeup Photo courtesy of © Lourens Grobler
Another color form Photo by © Eric Hunt and His Orchid Website.
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Common Name The Long Tail Masdevallia
Flower Size to 10" [to 25 cm] largest in the genus
A medium sized, cold to warm growing, Colombian and Ecuadorian species found at elevations of 2300-2600 meters as a lithophyte on mossy, plant covered rocks in cloud forests with a 6" [15 cm] long, stout stem enveloped basally by 2 to 3 loose, inflated tubualr sheaths carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptical, obtuse leaf that is cuneate below into the channeled petiole that blooms in the winter till early spring with an erect, stout, to 12" [30 cm] long inflorescence arising from the midlle of the ramicaul with a keeled, white, membraneous bract below the middle and a floral bract holding the large, showy, rigidly fleshy flower well above the leaf.
Synonyms Megema macrura (Rchb.f.) Luer 2006
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; Thesarus Masdevalliarum Vol 1 Luer & Treschslin 1983 watercolor fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 54 No 10 1985 photo; Systematics of Masdevallia Vol 2 Luer 1986; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 2 COS 1991 photo fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum XXI Systematics of Masdevallia Part 2 Luer 2000; Australian Orchid Review Vol 68 No 4 2003 photo; Orquideologia Vol. 23 No 1 2004 photo; Libro Rojo de Plantas De Colombia Vol 6 Primera Parte Saenz 2007 photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 72 No 4 2008 photo
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