Masdevallia corazonica Schltr. 1921 SUBGENUS Amanda Luer 1986
Photo courtesy of © Lourens Grobler
Photo courtesy of Patricia Harding
Common Name The Mount Corazon Masdevallia [A Mountain in western Ecuador]
Flower Size 1/5" [5 mm]
Found only in west central Ecuador in cloud forests at elevations of 2000 to 2500 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cold growing epiphyte with erect, slender, fasiculate ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 to 3 loose, tubular sheaths and carrying an apical, erect to suberect, coriaceous, petiolate, elliptical leaf that is cuneate below into the slender petiole and blooms in the winter and spring on an erect, simultaneously few flowered, racemose, 2.8" [7 cm] long, slender inflorescence arising from low on the ramicaul and having a close bract below the middle and inflated floral bract.
Synonyms Masdevallia sphenopetala Kraenzl. 1925; Spilotantha corazonica (Schltr.) Luer 2006
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Die Orchideen der Sudamerikanischen Kordillerenstaaten III Ecuador Schlechter 1921; Systematics of Masdevallia Vol 2 Luer 1986; Masdevallia's in Kleur Vol 1 P M Oversteegen, Eisses & A P Sijm 2001 photo fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum XXV Systematics of Masdevallia Part Five 2003 drawing fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVIII Luer 2006 as Spilotantha corazonica ; Orchidaceae Masdevallia and Affiliates Dodson & Luer 2009 as Spilotantha corazonica drawing fide; Orchids Masdevallia with its segregates including Dracula Zelenko 2014 photo fide;
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