Masdevallia naevia Luer & V.N.M.Rao 2005 SUBGENUS Masdevallia SECTION Masdevallia SUBSECTION Caudatae Veitch 1889

Another View Photos by Ecuagenera and their Ecuador Orchid Website

Common Name or Meaning The Birthmark Masdevallia [refers tothe dark spot at the base of the dorsal sepals tail]

Flower Size .8" [2 cm]

Found in Zamora-Chinchipe Ecuador around 2000 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cool growing epiphyte with an erect, stout ramicaul enveloped by 2 basal sheaths and another above and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptic-oblong, obtuse, narrowly cuneate below into the elongate, channeled petiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring on a slender, suberect, 4.4" [11 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence arising from low on the ramicaul with a bract in the lower quarter and a tubular floral bract.

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVII Luer 2005 drawing; A Treasure of Masdevallia Vol 28 Luer & Dalstroem 2006 watercolor fide; Orchidaceae Masdevallia and Affiliates Dodson & Luer 2009 drawing ok

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