Masdevallia lata Rchb.f. 1877 SUBGENUS Polyanthae SUBSECTION Successiviflorae Luer 2000 Photo by © Pieter C. Brouwer and his Nature Photo Website

Another Flower Photo courtesy of Eduoard Faria.

Side View of Flower Photo by © Daniel Jimenez

Common Name The Wide Masdevallia [Refers to the broad lateral sepals]

Flower Size 2" [5 cm]

Found in southeastern Costa Rica and southwestern Panama [Venezuela? no = M sancta-fidei] at elevations of 100 to 800 meters as a miniature to small sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with slender, erect ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 to 3, tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, thickly coriaceous, narrowly obovate, obtuse to rounded apically, narrowly cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the fall and winter on a sublax, successively few flowered, racemose, 6" [to 15 cm] long, round in Cross-section inlflorescence arising from near the base of the ramicaul with a bract below the middle and thin floral bracts.

Synonyms Alaticaulia lata (Rchb. f.) Luer 2006; Masdevallia borucana P.H.Allen 1952

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Lankester's Epidendra Website CR ; Venezuelan Orchids Illustrated Vol 6 Dunsterville & Garay 1976 drawing not = M sancta-fidei; Orchids of Venezuela ; An Illustrated Field Guide Vol 2 Dunsterville & Garay 1979 drawing not = M sancta-fidei; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 1452 Mora & Atwood 1992 drawing fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum XIX Systematics of Masdevallia Part 1 Luer 2000 drawing fide

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