Masdevallia X wubbenii Luer 1987 SUBGENUS Masdevallia SECTION Masdevallia SUBSECTION Oscillantes Luer 1986

Side View of Flower Photo by © Pieter C. Brouwer and his Nature Photo Website

Flower Closeup Photo courtesy of © Lourens Grobler.

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Common Name Wubben's Masdevallia [Dutch Orchid Enthusiast current]

Flower Size 1 1/5" [3 cm]

A cold to cool growing species found in northern Venezuela as a miniature sized epiphyte in forests at elevations of 2200 meters with slender, erect ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 to 3 tubular sheats carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptical, subacute to obtuse leaf that gradually narrow into the petiole and blooms in the spring on a slender, erect, 2 2/5" to 4" long, single flowered inflorescence arising from low on the ramicaul with a basal bract and a floral bract carrying the flower above the leaf. This species is a natuarally occuring hybrid between M. triangularis and M. wageneriana.

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *AOS Bulletin Vol 56 No 11 1987 photo/ drawing; Icones Pleurothallidinarum XXIII Systematics of Masdevallia Part 4 Luer 2002 drwawing fide

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