Masdevallia nicaraguae Luer 1979 SUBGENUS Masdevallia SECTION Minutae Rchb.f Ex Woolw. 1896

Side View Of Flower Photo by © Bogarin, Used under permission of Epidendra Website CR

Common Name The Nicaraguan Masdevallia

Flower Size .4" [1 cm]

Found in Nicaragua at elevations of 25 to 500 meters as a miniature sized, hot growing epiphyte with an erect ramicaul enveloped by 2 to 3 thin, tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, narrowly obovate, obtuse, gradually narrowing below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the fall on an erect to suberect, slender, 1.6 to 2.6" [4 to 6.5 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence arising from low on the ramicaul with a bract below the middle and a tubular floral bract and carries a single fragrant flower.

Synonyms Acinopetala nicaraguae (Luer) Luer 2006

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Lankester's Epidendra Website CR ; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 1039 Hamer 1984 drawing fide; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 1552 Mora & Atwood 1993 drawing fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 65 Vol 7 1996; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXII Luer 2001 drawing fide

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