Masdevallia coriacea Lindl. 1845 SUBGENUS Masdevallia SECTION Coriaceae SUBSECTION Coriaceae Rchb.f 1874 TYPE For the Subsection
Another Flower in situ Cundinamarca June 2022
Flowers in situ Cundinamarca June 2022
Photos by © Jay Pfahl
Plant and Flower in situ Colombia
Photos by © Andreas Philipp
Photo courtesy of Dale and Deni Borders
Photo courtesy of Eric Hunt, plnt grown by Marni Turkel
Photo by Jay Pfahl
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Common Name The Robust Leaf Masdevallia
Flower Size to about 3" [to about 7.5 cm]
Found in Colombia, Ecuador and Peru in cloud forests at elevations of 2200 to 3700 meters as a miniature to just small sized, tufted, cold growing, epiphytic or lithophytic species with short, erect ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 to 3 tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, linear-oblanceolate, coriaceous, keeled and conduplicate below into the channeled base leaves and are pale green with purple spots. This little orchid blooms on a erect, slender, 5 to 7" [12.5 to 17.5 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence arising from low on the ramicaul with a bract near the base and a floral bract holding the single flower amid or just above the leaves occuring in the spring and summer.
Synonyms Byrsella coriacea (Lindl.) Luer 2006; Masdevallia bogotensis Gentil 1907; Masdevallia bruchmuelleri E Morr. 1873; Masdevallia ochracea Burb 1871
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Die Orchideen Schlechter 1915; Atlas des Orchidees Cultivees Constantin 1920 drawing good; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; Die Orchideen 3 Auflage Bd 1 Sonderabdruck aus Schlechter Lieferung 7 385 - 448 Brieger, Maatsch and Senghas 1975; Orquideologia Vol 16 No 1 1983 drawing fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Systematics of Masdevallia Vol 2 Luer 1986 drawing fide; The Manual Of Cultivated Orchid Species Bechtel, Cribb & Launert 1992 photo fide; Icones Orchidacearum Peruviarum Plate 288 Bennett & Christenson 1995; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 6 COS 1998 photo fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum XXI Systematics of Masdevallia Part 2 Luer 2000 drqawing fide; Masdevallia's in Kleur Vol 1 P M Oversteegen, Eisses & A P Sijm 2001 photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 66 #1 2002 drawing fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum XXV Systematics of Masdevallia Part Five Luer 2003 drawing fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVIII Luer 2006 as Byrsella coriacea; Libro Rojo de Plantas De Colombia Vol 6 Primera Parte Saenz 2007; Orchid Species of Peru Zelenko Bermudez 2009 photo fide; Orchidaceae Masdevallia and Affiliates Dodson & Luer 2009 as Byrsella coriacea drawing fide; Orchids Masdevallia with its segregates including Dracula Zelenko 2014 photo fide;
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