Masdevallia scabrilinguis Luer 1979 SUBGENUS Masdevallia SECTION Minutae Rchb.f Ex Woolw. 1896 Photo by © Eric Hunt and His Orchid Website

Flower Closeup Photo courtesy of Lourens Grobler ©

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Common Name The Rough-Lipped Masdevallia

Flower Size 1" [2.5 cm]

This miniature sized, cold to cool growing species has been reported from Panama and western Costa Rica at elevations of 1200 to 1300 meters with slender, erect ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 to 3 thin, close, tubular sheaths carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, narrowly obovate, subacute to obtuse leaf that gradually narrows below into the subpetiolate base that blooms in the spring on a slender, erect to suberecct, succesively solitary flowered, 1 3/5" to 3 1/5" [4 to 8 cm] long inflorescence arising from low on the ramicaul with a bract below the middle and a tubular floral bract holding the flower amid the leaves.

Synonyms Acinopetala scabrillinguis (Luer) Luer 2006

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Lankester's Epidendra Website CR ; Systematics of Masdevallia Vol 2 Luer 1986; Icones Pleurothallidinarum XXII Systematics of Masdevallia Part 3 Luer 2001 drawing ok

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