Masdevallia titan Luer 1996 SUBGENUS Masdevallia SECTION Durae Luer 2000 Photo courtesy of Erica Moron de Abad © and Her Biorquidtropic Peru Lab Web Page

LATER EARLY

Common Name The Titan Masdevallia {refers to the flowers size]

Flower Size 2" wide x 12" [5 x 30 cm]

Found in Peru in cloud forests as a small sized, cool growing epiphyte with stout, erect ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 to 3 tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, thickly coriaceous, narrowly obovate, obtuse, gradually narrows below into the indistinct petiolate base leaf that blooms in the later spring and early summer on a terete, purplish, horizontal to ascending, 12 to 16" [30 to 40 cm] long, successively few flowered inflorescence arising from low on the the ramicaul, with 2 to 3 bracts below the middle and a tubular floral bract

Synonyms Regalia titan (Luer) Luer 2006

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Pleurothallidinarum XXI Systematics of Masdevellia Part 2 Luer 2000 drawing fide

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