Masdevallia adrianae Luer 1998 SUBGENUS Polyantha SECTION Alaticaules SUBSECTION Alaticaules [Krzl.] Luer 1986
Photos by © Milan Vágner
TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer
Common Name Adriana's Masdevallia [Mrs Sijm Dutch wife of orchid enthusiast, cultivator of species]
Flower Size 3/4" [2 cm]
Found in central Ecuador without locality as a mini-miniature sized, presumed caespitose epiphyte with erect ramicauls enveloped by 2 to 3, loose, tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptical, subacute, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms on a slender, arising from low on the ramicaul, suberect, sharply triquetrous, 6 to 7.6" [15 to 19 cm] long, congested, successively several flowered inflorescence with a bract near the base and imbricating, shorter than the pedicel floral bracts.
"The flowers are produced successively in a congested raceme borne by a slender, triquetrous peduncle that exceeds the leaf in length. The sepals are deeply connate into an orange tube that is obtusely swollen on the bottom side. With recurving margins, the dorsal sepal forms a tube-like tail beyond the sepaline tube. The lateral sepals are suffused with red-purple and are connate to within .2 " [5 mm] of the subacute, tailess apices. The petals are oblong and longer than the lip that is divided above the middle by marginal folds." Luer 2000
Synonyms Alaticaulia adrianae (Luer) Luer 2006; Masdevallia ephippium var. acrochordonia (Rchb.f.) Woolward 1889
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; * Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XVII Systematics of Pleurothallis Section Abortivae, Truncatae, Subsection Acroniae, Subgenera Dracontia and Uncifera Luer 1998 drawing fide; A Treasure of Masdevallia Vol 25 Luer & Dalstroem 2000 watercolor/drawing fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XIX Part 1 Masdevallia Luer 2000 drawing fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVIII Luer 2006 as Alaticaulia adrianae; Orchidaceae Masdevallia and Affiliates Dodson & Luer 2009 as Alaticaulia adrianae drawing fide; Orchids Masdevallia with its segregates including Dracula Zelenko 2014 photo fide;
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