Masdevallia acaroi Luer & Hirtz 2003 SUBGENUS Masdevallia SECTION Masdevallia SUBSECTION Caudatae Veitch 1889
Photo by © Lourens Grobler
TYPE Drawing by Carl Luer
Common Name Acaro's Masdevallia [Sr. Acaro Medina Ecuadorian Orchid Enthusiast current]
Flower Size 1.2" [3 cm]
Found in southeastern Ecuador at elevations around 1700 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cool growing epiphyte with slender, erect ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 loose, tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, narrowly elliptical, subacute to obtuse, gradually narrowing below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the summer on a horizontal, 1.4" [3.5 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence arising from low on the ramicaul with a basal bract and a tubular floral bract
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Icones Pleurothallidinarum XXV Systematics of Masdevallia Part 5 Luer 2003 drawing fide; Orchidaceae Masdevallia and Affiliates Dodson & Luer 2009 drawing fide; Orchids Masdevallia with its segregates including Dracula Zelenko 2014 photo fide;
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