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Masdevallia strumifera Rchb.f. 1886 SUBGENUS Masdevallia SECTION Masdevallia SUBSECTION Masdevallia Photo by Jay Pfahl

Common Name The Goiter Carrying Masdevallia [refers to the prominent mentum]

Flower Size .6" [1.5 cm]

Found in Venezuela, Colombia and Ecuador in cloud forests to dwarf forests at elevations around 2000 to 3750 meters as a miniature sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte or terrestrial with blackish, erect, coriaceous ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 to 3 tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, dark green mottled with black, coriaceous, petiolate, narrowly elliptical leaf that gradually narrows below into the slender blackish petiole and blooms in the spring on a slender, erect, 1 to 4.2" [2.5 to 11 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence arising from low on the ramicaul and having a bract above the base and tubular floral bracts

Synonyms Masdevallia chrysochaete F.Lehm. & Kraenzl. 1925; Masdevallia maxillariiformis F.Lehm. & Kraenzl. 1921

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Beitrage Zur Orchideenkunde Von Colombia 27:152 Schlechter 1924 as M chrysochaete; Venezuelan Orchids Illustrated Vol 6 Dunsterville & Garay 1976 drawing good; Flora de Venezuela Foldats Volumen XV Part 3 1970 drawing good; Orchids of Venezuela An Illustrated Field Guide Vol 2 Dunsterville & Garay 1979 drawing good; Orquideologia Vol 16 No 1 1983; Systematics of Masdevallia Vol 2 Luer 1986; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 3 COS 1991; Orchids of Venezuela [An illustrated field guide] Vol. 2 Ramiro and Carnevali 2000 drawing fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum XXII Systematics of Masdevallia Part 3 Luer 2001 drawing fide; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 3 Dodson 2002 photo fide; Orquideas Nativas del Tachira Cesar Fernandez 2003 photo ok; Libro Rojo de Plantas De Colombia Vol 6 Primera Parte Saenz 2007; Orchidaceae Masdevallia and Affiliates Dodson & Luer 2009 drawing ok

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