Masdevallia andreettaeana Luer 1981 SUBGENUS Masdevallia SECTION Masdevallia SUBSECTION Oscillantes Luer 1986
Photos by © Jay Pfahl
TYPE Drawing by Carl Luer
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Common Name Andreetta's Masdevallia [Salesian missionary and Orchid Collector in Ecuador - Current]
Flower Size to 1" x 2 3/4" to 4" [2.5 cm x 7 to 10 cm]
Found in southern Ecuador and northern Peru in cloud forests at 1600 to 2100 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cool to cold growing epiphytic species is with blackish, slender, erect ramicauls enveloped by 2 to 3 loose, tubular sheaths carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptic, obtuse leaf with a blackish petiole that blooms on an erect to ascending, slender, 1 1/5" to 1 2/5" [3 to 3,5 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence arising from low on the ramicaul with a floral bract carrying the long-lasting flower at or just below leaf height. This plant can be mounted so as to display the beautiful flowers at their maximum.
Similar to but differs from M ejiriana by the unwinged lip.
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; AOS Bulletin Vol 57 No 2 1988 photo fide; ; Madevallia's in Kleur Vol 1 P M Oversteegen, Eisses & A P Sijm 2001 photo fide; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 3 Dodson 2002 photo fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum XXIII Systematics of Masdevallia Part 4 Luer 2002 drawing fide; Orchid Species of Peru Zelenko Bermudez 2009 photo fide; Orchidaceae Masdevallia and Affiliates Dodson & Luer 2009 drawing fide; Orchid Digest Vol76 #2 2012 photo fide; Orchids Masdevallia with its segregates including Dracula Zelenko 2014 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 86 #7 2017 photo fide;
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