Masdevallia welischii Luer 1979 SUBGENUS Masdevallia SECTION Masdevallia SUBSECTION Coccineae Veitch 1889 Photo by © Jay Pfahl
Flower Color Variety Photos courtesy of © Lourens Grobler
Another Flower Photo by © Ellis Eyre
Common Name Welisch's Masdevallia [American Discoverer of species 20th cen]
Flower Size 1 14" [3 cm]
A Peruvian lithophyte found on exposed rocks on cliff faces at an altitude of 3000 meters and is a miniature sized, cold growing orchid with stout, erect ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 to 3 tubular sheaths carrying a single, apical, erect, thickly coriaceous, narrowly elliptical, subacute to acute leaf that gradually narrows below into the channeled petiole and blooms in summer with an ascending to suberect, slender, 4 7/8" to 7 1/5" [12 to 18 cm] long, solitary flowered inflorescence arising from low on the ramicaul with a bract below the middle and a floral bract.
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *AOS Bullletin Vol 49 No 12 1980 drawing/photo fide; Systematics of Masdevallia Vol 2 Luer 1986; A Treasure of Masdevallia Vol 21 Luer & Dalstroem 1996 drawing fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum XXV Systematics of Masdevallia Part Five 2005 drawing fide; Orchid Digest Vol 72 No 4 2008 photo fide; Orchid Species of Peru Zelenko Bermudez 2009 photo fide; Las Orquideas del Peru Izerskyy & Bezverhov 2011 photo fide
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