Masdevallia juan-albertoi Luer & M.Arias 2000 SUBGENUS Masdevallia SECTION Masdevallia SUBSECTION Masdevallia
Photos by © Patrick & Martine Cloes and their Pleurothallid Webpage
Photos by Ecuagenera and their Ecuador Orchid Website
TYPE Drawing by Carl Luer
Common Name or Meaning Juan Alberto's Masdevallia [Son of Manuel Arias, Ecuadorian Nurseryman current]
Flower Size 1" [2.5 cm]
Found in Ayacucho department of southern Peru at elevations around 2300 meters as a miniature to small sized, cold growing, caespitose epiphyte with erect, stout ramicauls enveloped by 2 to 3, loose tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptical, subacute, cuneate below into the elongate, channeled petiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring on a an erect, arising from low on the ramicaul with a bract above the base, to 4 to 5.6" [10 to 14 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence with a shorter than the pedicel floral bract.
"Related to M laevis but distinguished by the large habit, and large brown flecked flower with a prominent mentum. The petals are large with a thick, retrorse process at the base. The lip is also large with a constriction below the apex." Luer 2000
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; * Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XX Systematics of Jostia, Andinia, Barbosella, Barbrodia & Pleurothallis subgen Antilla, Effusia and Restrepioidia Luer 2000 drawing fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXII Masdevallia Part 3 Luer 2001 drawing fide; Orchid Species of Peru Zelenko Bermudez 2009 photo fide; Orchids Masdevallia with its segregates including Dracula Zelenko 2014 photo fide;
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