SUBGENUS Cucullatia Luer 2000
"Characterized by the robust habit and a solitary, rather large, strong flower. The inflorescence emerges from the ramicaul a considerable distance from the base. The peduncle is round in cross section. A disinctive, large, inflated, foliaceous, floral bract encloses an abbreviated pedicel, a thickly carinate ovary and the basal portion of the flower. The seplas are rigily fleshy. The apices of the cartilaginous petals are variously thickened, channeled, twisted or verrucose. The lip is divided by marginal folds near the middle to creat an epipchile and a hypochile." Luer 2000
SUBGENUS TYPE
!Masdevallia cucullata Lindley 1846
The Species
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