Masdevallia patriciana Luer 1978
SUBGENUS Masdevallia SECTION Masdevallia SUBSECTION Masdevallia
Flower closeup Photo courtesy of Dale and Deni Borders.
Common Name Patricia's Masdevallia [Discoverer of Species Wife current]
Flower Size 1 1/5" [3 cm]
Found in Ecuador in cloud forests at 2300 to 2800 meters as a miniature sized, cold growing epiphyte with erect, slender ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 to 3 loose tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptical-obovate, obtuse leaf that is cuneate below into a blackish, slender petiole and blooms in the fall on a short, erect, slender, solitary flowered inflorescence arising from low on the ramicaul and has a bract near the base and a tubular floral bract with the multicolored, single flower below the leaf heigth.
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Thesarus Masdevalliarum Vol 1 Luer & Treschslin 1983 watercolor fide; Systematics of Masdevallia Vol 2 Luer 1986; Icones Pleurothallidinarum XXII Systematics of Masdevallia Part 3 Luer 2001 drawing fide; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 3 Dodson 2002 photo fide; Orchidaceae Masdevallia and Affiliates Dodson & Luer 2009 drawing fide;
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