Masdevallia ivanii Luer & V.N.M.Rao 2006 SUBGENUS Masdevallia SECTION Masdevallia SUBSECTION Caudatae Veitch 1889
Photo by © Lourens Grobler
Photo by © Ellis Eyre
TYPE Drawing by Carl Luer
Common Name Ivan's Masdevallia [Ecuadorian Nurseryman Ivan Acaro current]
Flower Size 1.2" [3 cm]
Found in Morona-Santiago province of Ecuador in the Cordillera del Condor at elevations around 1500 meters meters as a mini-miniature sized, cool growing, caespitose epiphyte with blackish, erect, slender ramicauls enveloped by 2 to 3, loose, tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, ellitpical, subacute, gradually narrowing below into the cuneate, blackish petiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring on an erect, 2.4" [6 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence arising from low on the ramicaul, with a bract near the base and a tubular, shorter than the pedicel floral bracts.
"Similar to M triangularis but the petals and lip are distinctive. M ivanii has narrowly acute petals apically and below the middle a thick obtuse process descends. The lip is held erect on an elongate column foot. The disc is thickly rounded at the base developing into a pair of parallel calli all the way to the recurved apex." Luer 2006
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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; * Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVIII A Reconsideration of Masdevallia Systematics of Specklinia Luer 2006 drawing fide; Orchidaceae Masdevallia and Affiliates Dodson & Luer 2009 drawing fide; Orchids Masdevallia with its segregates including Dracula Zelenko 2014 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 88 #10 2019 photo fide;
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