Masdevallia oreas Luer & R. Vásquez 1981 SUBGENUS Polyanthae SUBSECTION Polyanthae Rchb.f 1874
Side View of Flower Photo courtesy of Eric Hunt, plant grown by the San Francisco Conservatory of Flowers.
Common Name The Mountain Masdevallia [Oreas A mountain nymph of Mythology]
Flower Size 1" [2.5 cm]
Found in central Bolivia at elevations of 2000 to 2200 meters in cloud forests as a miniature, cool to cold growing epiphyte with erect, slender ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 to 3, thin, tubular sheaths carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptical, subacute leaf that gradually narrows below into the petiole and blooms on an erect, terete, congested, 2/5" [1 cm] long, successively few flowered, racemose inflorescence arising from low on the ramicaul with a bract near the base and tubular floral bracts.
SynonymsAlaticaulia oreas (Luer & R.Vásquez) Luer 2006
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Systematics of Masdevallia Vol 2 Luer 1986; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Series II plate 0249 Dodson & Vasquez 1989 drawing fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum XIX Systematics of Masdevallia Part 1 Luer 2000 drawing fide;
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