Masdevallia tridens Rchb. f. 1879 SUBGENUS Amanda SECTION Amandae Rchb.f 1874 Photo courtesy of Walter Teague.

Common Name The Three Toothed Masdevallia

Flower Size 1/2" [1.25 cm]

Found in Ecuador in cloud forests at elevations of 1800 to 2700 meters as a cool to cold growing epiphyte with slender ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 to 3 loose, tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, long-petiolate, elliptical, obtuse leaf that is cuneate below into the slender petiole that blooms on an erect then almost horizontal, congested, simultaneously several-flowered, racemose, 8" [20 cm] long inflorescence arising from low on the ramicaul with 3 to 4 evenly spaced, tubular bracts and, thin, oblique, acute, cucullate floral bracts .

Synonyms Masdevallia jubar Luer & Malo 1979; Spilotantha tridens (Rchb.f.) Luer 2006

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Otia Botanica Hamburgensia Rchb.f 1878; Systematics of Masdevallia Vol 2 Luer 1986; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 3 COS 2002; Icones Pleurothallidinarum XXV Systematics of Masdevallia Part Five 2005

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