Masdevallia naranjapatae Luer 1978 SUBGENUS Pygmaeia SECTION Zahlbrucknerae 2000 Photo courtesy of Eric Hunt, plant grown by Dan Newman of Hanging Gardens.

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Common Name The Naranjapata Masdevallia [Town in Ecuador]

Flower Size 3/4" [2 cm]

Found only in western Ecuador in seasonally dry montane cloud forests as a miniature sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte at elevations of 100 to 700 meters with slender ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 to 3 short, tubular sheaths carrying a single, apical, erect to suberect, coriaceous, narrowly obovate, subacute leaf that gradually narrows below into the slender, indistinct petiole that flowers in the fall and late winter in the northern hemisphere on a slender, horizontal to descending, 2 to 3 1/5" [5 to 8 cm] long, successively few flowered, congested, racemose inflorescence arising from low on the ramicaul with a tubular floral bract. Is often found on old orange trees with Dracula mopsus.

Synonyms Zahleria naranjapatae (Luer) Luer 2006

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Systematics of Masdevallia Vol 2 Luer 1986; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum plate 139 Dodson 1980 drawing ok; Icones Pleurothallidinarum XXI Systematics of Masdevallia Part 2 Luer 2000 drawing ok; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 3 Dodson 2002 drawing ok; Orchidaceae Masdevallia and Affiliates Dodson & Luer 2009 as Zahleria naranjapatae drawing ok;

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