Masdevallia anachaeta Rchb. f. 1878 SUBGENUS Pygmaeia SECTION Pygmaeae Luer 1986
Photo by © Jay Pfahl in situ Parque Tatama 8/17 2000 meters
Another flower in situ Ecuador
Plant and Flowers in situ Ecuador
Plant and Flowers in situ Ecuador
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Common Name The Strong Hair Masdevallia [refers to the fringed ovary]
Flower Size 1/5" [5 mm]
Found in Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador and Colombia at elevations of 1600 to 3400 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte in damp forests on western slopes and cloud forests with erect, abbreviated ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 to 3 tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, narrowly elliptical, subacute leaf that gradually narrows into the petiole below and blooms in the summer and early fall on a slender, erect, 3/4" [2 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence arising from low on the ramicaul with a thin bract above the base and a cuculate floral bract all carrying a single nodding flower
Synonyms Diodonopsis anachaeta (Rchb. f.) Pridgeon & M.W. Chase 2001; Masdevallia nutans F. Lehm. & Kraenzl. 1921; Masdevallia vulcanica F. Lehm. & Kraenzl. 1921
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Otia Botanica Hamburgensia Rchb.f 1878; Orquideologia Vol 16 No 1 1983; Systematics of Masdevallia Vol 2 Luer 1986; Orchids Travel By Air A Pictoral Safari Mulder, Mulder-Roelfsema and Schuiteman 1990 photo fide; Icones Orchidacearum Peruviarum Plate 083 Bennett & Christenson 1993 drawing fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum XXI Systematics of Masdevallia Part 2 Luer 2000 drawing fide; Lindleyana Vol 16 No 4 2001 as Diodonopsis anachaeta; Madevallia's in Kleur Vol 1 P M Oversteegen, Eisses & A P Sijm 2001 photo fide; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 3 Dodson 2002 drawing/photo fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVIII Luer 2006 as Diodonopsis anachaeta; Libro Rojo de Plantas De Colombia Vol 6 Primera Parte Saenz 2007; Orchid Species of Peru Zelenko Bermudez 2009 photo fide as Diodonopsis anachaeta; Orchidaceae Masdevallia and Affiliates Dodson & Luer 2009 as Didionopsis anachaeta drawing fide; Orchids Masdevallia with its segregates including Dracula Zelenko 2014 photo fide;
LANKESTERIANA 23(2). Karremans, Moreno, Gil-Amaya, Morales, Espinosa, Mesa, Restrepo, Rincon-Gonzales, Serna, Sierra-Ariza and Vieira-Uribe 2023 as Didionopsis anachaeta photo fide;
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