Masdevallia cloesii Luer 1993 SUBGENUS Masdevallia SECTION Masdevallia SUBSECTION Caudatae Veitch 1889
Photo by © Patrick Cloes
Photos by Alfonso Doucette Copyright © 2009, and His Flicker website
TYPE Drawing by Carl Luer
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EARLY
Common Name Cloes' Masdevallia [Belgian Discoverer of Species current]
Flower Size 1.2" [3 cm]
Found in Amazonas department of Peru at elevations around 2000 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte with stout, erect, blackish ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 to 3 tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptical, subacute to obtuse, cuneate below into the blackish, petiolate base leaf that blooms in the early winter on a slender, erect, 2 to 2.6" [5 to 6.5 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence arising from near the base of the ramicaul with a bract near the base and a tubular floral bract
Similar to M xanthina but distinguishes most easily by the rose colored flowers with no eye spot at the base of the lateral sepals.
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; A Treasure of Masdevallia Vol 25 Luer & Dalstroem 2000 watercolor/drawing fide; Masdevallia's in Kleur Vol 1 P M Oversteegen, Eisses & A P Sijm 2001 photo fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum XXIII Systematics of Masdevallia Part 4 Luer 2002 drawing fide; Orchids Masdevallia with its segregates including Dracula Zelenko 2014 photo fide;
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