Masdevallia picta Luer 1978 SUBGENUS Masdevallia SECTION Masdevallia SUBSECTION Masdevallia

Photo by Ecuagenera and their Ecuadorian Orchid Website

SIde View of Flower Photo by © Ron Parsons and his Flower Shots Orchid Photo Website

Common Name or Meaning The Painted Masdevallia

Flower Size 1.2" [3 cm]

Found in southeastern Ecuador and northern Peru in cold cloud forestsat elevations around 2700 to 3200 meters as a small sized, cold growing epiphyte with blackish, slender, erect, ramicaul enveloped by 2 to 3loose, tubular sheaths carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptical, subacute, gradually narrowing below into the cuneate, slender, petiolate base leaf that blooms in the fall on often 2 to 4, erect, slender, 2 to 4" [5 to 10 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence arising from high on the ramicaul.

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; 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 ok

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