Masdevallia gerhardii Luer & Sijm 2010 SUBGENUS Masdevallia SECTION Masdevallia SUBSECTION Masdevallia
Photo by © Tom Sijm
TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
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Common Name Gerhard's Masdevallia [Gerhard Vierling German Orchid enthusiast and cultivator of species current]
Flower Size 2" [5 cm]
Found in Norte de Santander department of Colombia without exact locality as a miniature sized epiphyte with erect, stout ramicuals enveloped by 2 to 3 loose, tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptical, obtuse, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the later summer on a slender, erect to suberect, 4 to 4.4" [10 to 11 cm] long, single flowered inflorecence with a bract above the base and arising from low on the ramicaul.
Distinguished by the white, rose suffused flower, and a peculiar, small, conical mentum at the junction between the lateral sepals and the concave lip is also unique.
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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXXI Luer 2006 drawing fide; Masdevallia in Detail Vol 5 Sijm etal 2010 photo/drawing fide; Orchids Masdevallia with its segregates including Dracula Zelenko 2014 photo fide;
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