Masdevallia tokachiorum Luer 1991 SUBGENUS Masdevallia SECTION Reichenbachianae Woolw. 1896
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Common Name Tokach's Masdevallia [American Cultivator of species]
Flower Size 1.6" [4 cm]
Found in Chiriqui Panama at elevations around 1000 meters as a mini-miniature sized, war mto cool growing epiphyte with slender, erect ramicauls enveloped by 2 t o3 loose tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, narrowly elliptical, subacute, marrowly cuneate below into the indistinct petiolate base leaf that blooms spring and fall on an erect to suberect, slenser, [6 to 9 cm] long, successively single, 2 flowered inflorescence arising from near the base of the ramicaul with a thin bract above the base and has a tubular floral bract.
Synonyms Acinopetala tokachiorum (Luer) Luer 2006; Reichantha tokachiorum (Luer) Luer 2007
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Pleurothallidinarum VOl XXII Masdevallia Part 3 Luer 2001 drawing fide; A Treasure of Masdevallia Vol 26 Luer & Dalstroem 2001 watercolors fide;
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