Masdevallia chasei Luer 1980 SUBGENUS Masdevallia SECTION Reichenbachianae Woolw. 1896
Photo by © Lourens Grobler
Photo by Richard Korber
TYPE Drawing by Carl Luer
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Common Name Chase's Masdevallia [Director of RHS Kew current]
Flower Size 1" [2.5 cm]
Found in Costa Rica and Colombia at elevations of 900 to 1800 meters in humid forests as a miniature to small sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with erect, slender ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 to 3 thin, loose, tubular sheaths carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, narrowly obovate, subacute to obtuse leaf that is gradually narrowed below into the slender petiole and blooms in the late spring through early winter on a slender, erect to suberect, 1 3/5" to 3 1/5" [4 to 8 cm] long, solitary succesively flowered inflorescence arising from low on the ramicaul with a basal bract and a tubular floral bract holding the flower at mid leaf.
Synonyms Reichantha chasei (Luer) Luer 2006
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Lankester's Epidendra Website CR ;
* Phytologia 46: 349 Luer 1980;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Systematics of Masdevallia Vol 2 Luer 1986;
Icones Orchidacearum Peruviarum Plate 288 Bennett & Christenson 1995;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum XXI Systematics of Masdevallia Part 2 Luer 2000 drawing fide;
Masdevallia's in Kleur Vol 1 P M Oversteegen, Eisses & A P Sijm 2001 photo fide;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum XXV Systematics of Masdevallia Part Five Luer 2003;
Manual de Plantas de Costa Rica Vol 3 Hammel, Grayum, Herrera and Zamora 2003;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum XXVIII Luer 2006 as Reichantha chasei;
Orchids Masdevallia with its segregates including Dracula Zelenko 2014 photo fide;
Vanishing Beauty, Native Costa Rican Orchids Vol 2 Lacaena to Pteroglossa Pupulin 2020 photo fide
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