Masdevallia laucheana John Fraser 1894 SUBGENUS Masdevallia SECTION Minutae Rchb.f Ex Woolw. 1896
Photo by © Walter Schug
Photo by © Daniel Jimenez
Common Name Lauche's Masdevallia [Director of Vienna Botanical Garden 1800's]
Flower Size 3/4" [2 cm]
Found in Costa Rica in primary forests at elevations of 950 to 1500 meters as a mini-miniature sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with erect, slender ramicauls enveloped basaly by 2 to 3 imbricate, tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, narrowly elliptical-obovate, subacute to obtuse, gradually narrowing below into the cuneate, petiolate base leaf that blooms in the fall on a slender, suberect, 1.6" to 2.4" [4 cm to 6 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence arising from low on the ramicaul and with a bract near the base and tubular floral bracts carrying flowers that often smell of Vanilla
Synonyms Acinopetala laucheana (John Fraser) Luer 2006
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Lankester's Epidendra Website CR ; AOS Bulletin Vol 31 No 4 1962 photo fide; Orchids Travel By Air A Pictoral Safari Mulder, Mulder-Roelfsema and Schuiteman 1990 photo fide; The Manual Of Cultivated Orchid Species Bechtel, Cribb & Launert 1992 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 62 No 4 1993 drawing fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum XXII Systematics of Masdevallia part 3 Luer 2001 drawing fide; Masdevallia's in Kleur Vol 1 P M Oversteegen, Eisses & A P Sijm 2001 photo fide; Manual de Plantas de Costa Rica Vol 3 Hammel, Grayum, Herrera and Zamora 2003; Icones Pleurothallidianrum Vol XXVIII A Reconsideration of Masdevallia Systematics of Specklinia Luer 2006 as Acinopetala laucheana; Icones Pleurothallidianrum Vol XXIX A Third Century of Stelis of Ecuador Systematics of Apoda-Prorepentia Luer 2007 as Acinopetala laucheana; Orchids Masdevallia with its segregates including Dracula Zelenko 2014 photo fide; Of Men & Orchids Part 1 Jenny 2015 drawing/photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 80 #2 2016; Vanishing Beauty, Native Costa Rican Orchids Vol 2 Lacaena to Pteroglossa Pupulin 2020 photo fide
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