Masdevallia richardsoniana Luer 1988 subgen. Polyantha sect. Alaticaules subsect. Alaticaules {Krzl.] Luer 1986 Photo courtesy of Eric Hunt

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Common Name Richardson's Masdevallia [American Orchid Enthusiast current]]

Flower Size 3/4" [2 cm]

Found in Peru as a caespitose, miniature sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte in moderately cool, wet, montane forests at elevations around 1800 meters with erect, slender ramicauls enveloped by 2 to 3 tubular sheaths carrying a single, apical, coriaceous, narrowly elliptical, subacute leaf that gradually narrows into the petiole below that blooms on a slender, erect, triquetrous, single to occaisionally 2 flowered inflorescence arising from low on the ramicaul with a basal bract.

Synonyms Alaticaulia richardsoniana (Luer) Luer 2006

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Pleurothallidinarum XIX Systematics of Masdevallia Part 1 Luer 2000

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