Masdevallia urceolaris Kraenzl. 1922 SUBGENUS Masdevallia SECTION Masdevallia SUBSECTION Masdevallia
Photo courtesy of © Lourens Grobler
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Common Name The Pitcher-Shaped Masdevallia
Flower Size .6" [1.5 cm]
Found in Norte de Santander state of Colombia in cloud forests on tree trunks in thick moss at elevations near 2000 metes as a small sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte with short, stout, erect ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 to 3 loose, tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptical, obtuse, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring and fall on a horizontal, sinuous, .8 to 1" [2 to 2.5 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence arising from low on the ramicaul with a bract near the base and a tubular floral bract and holds the flower close to or in the substrate so the flower is repent.
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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Thesarus Masdevalliarum Vol 1 Luer & Treschslin 1983 watercolor fide; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 6 COS 1998 photo ok; Icones Pleurothallidinarum XXII Masdevallia Part 3 Luer 2001 drwaing fide; Libro Rojo de Plantas De Colombia Vol 6 Primera Parte Saenz 2007 photo fide;
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