Masdevallia priscillana Luer & V.N.M.Rao 2005

SUBGENUS Polyantha SECTION Alaticaules SUBSECTION Alaticaules [Krzl.] Luer 1986

Another Flower? Photo by Ecuagenera and their Ecuador Orchid Website

Common Name or Meaning Priscilla's Masdevallia [Ecuadorian wife of Orchid Nurseryman Current]

Flower Size .8" [2 cm]

Found in Ecuador without locality as a mini-miniature sized epiphyte with slender, erect, ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 thin, tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, narrowly elliptical, subacute, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the winter on an erect, stout, triquetrous, congested, abbreviated, successively single few flowered inflorescence arising from low on the ramicaul with a bract near the base and a thin, tubular floral bract.

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVII Luer 2005 drawing fide to the first photo; A Treasure of Masdevallia Vol 28 Luer & Dalstroem 2006 watercolor fide; Orchidaceae Masdevallia and Affiliates Dodson & Luer 2009 as Alaticaulia priscilliana drawing fide;

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