Masdevallia cordeliana Luer 2002 SUBGENUS Masdevallia SECTION Masdevallia SUBSECTION Caudatae Veitch 1889

TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer and the The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

Part Shade Cold LATEWinter EARLYSpring

Common Name Cordelia's Masdevallia [American Nurserywoman current]

Flower Size 1" [2.5 cm]

Found in San Martin department of Peru at elevations around 2500 meters as a miniature sized, cold growing epiphtye with blackish, slender, erect ramicauls enveloped by 2 to 3 loose, tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptical-oblong, obtuse, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the late winter and early spring on a slender, erect, 4" [10 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence with a bract near the base arising from low on the ramicaul and has a tubular floral bract.

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXIII Masdevallia Part 4 Luer 2002 drawing fide;

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