Masdevallia berthae Luer & Andreetta 1989 SUBGENUS Pygmaeia SECTION Aphanes Luer 1986
Photos by Ecuagenera and their Ecuador Orchid Website
TYPE Drawing by Carl Luer
Common Name or Meaning Bertha's Masdevallia [Mrs Portilla, Ecuadorian Orchid Enthusiasts current]
Flower Size .4" [1 cm]
Found in Ecuador around 1600 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cool growing epiphyte with erect, slender, blackish ramicauls enveloped by 2 to 3 tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous narrowly elliptical, obtuse to subacute, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the winter on a slender, 2" [5 cm] long, erect then pendant, successively single, to 5 flowered inflorescence arising from low on the ramicaul with a bract near the middle and another at the base and has tubular floral bracts.
Checked Type Drawing W3Tropicos OK
Synonyms Luzama berthae (Luer & Andreetta) Luer 2006
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Pleurtothallidinarum Vol XXI Masdevallia Part 2 Luer 2000 drawing fide; Madevallia's in Kleur Vol 1 P M Oversteegen, Eisses & A P Sijm 2001 photo ok?; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 3 Dodson 2002 photo fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum XXVIII Luer 2006 as Luzama berthae; Orchidaceae Masdevallia and Affiliates Dodson & Luer 2009 as Luzama berthae drawing fide; Orchids Masdevallia with its segregates including Dracula Zelenko 2014 photo fide;
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