Masdevallia striatella Rchb. f. 1886 SUBGENUS Polyanthae SUBSECTION Polyanthae Rchb.f 1874 Photo courtesy of Marius Wasbauer.
Specimen plant Photo courtesy of Dale and Deni Borders.
Plant and Flowers insitu Costa Rica Photo by © Wilfried Löderbusch.
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Common Name The Small Striped Masdevallia
Flower Size 3/8" [1 cm]
This miniature sized, epiphytic species is found in Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia and Venezuela? in lower montane cloud forests at elevations of 400 to 2500 meters on tree trunks with cylindric, 1/5 to 1/4" [5 to 7 mm] long stems enveloped with 2 to 3, thin, close, tubular bracts carrying a single, apical, erect, somewhat fleshy, spatulate, petiolate leaf that gradually narrows into the indistinct petiole, blooming on a slender, erect, 1 1/5" to 3" [3 to 7 cm] long, successive solitary flowered inflorescence arising from low on the ramicaul with a bract near the base and a tubular floral bract holding a single flower at mid-leaf height occuring in the fall and early winter.
Synonyms Masdevallia chloracra Rchb.f 1886; Masdevallia demissa var superflua Kraenzl. 1925; Masdevallia superflua Kraenzl. 1921; Masdevallia tubuliflora Ames 1908; Reichantha striatella (Rchb.f.) Luer 2006
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Lankester's Epidendra Website CR ; Venezuelan Orchids Vol 3 Dunsterville & Garay 1965; Flora de Venezuela Foldats Volumen XV Part 3 1970; Orquideologia Vol 16 No 1 1983 as M chloraca; Systematics of Masdevallia Vol 2 Luer 1986; Systematics of Masdevallia Vol 2 Luer 1986 as Masdevallia striatella; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum plate 1557 Atwood 1993; AOS Bulletin Vol 63 No 1 1994 photo; Icones Pleurothallidinarum XIX Systematics of Masdevallia Part 1 Luer 2000; AOS Bulletin Vol 72 No 10 2003; Orchid Digest Vol 72 No 4 2008 photo
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