Masdevallia microsiphon Luer 1978 SUBGENUS Amanda Luer 1986
Photo by © P. A. Mahon
Photo by Ecuagenera and their Ecuador Orchid Website
TYPE Drawing by Carl Luer
Common Name or Meaning The Small Tube Masdevallia [refers to the small opening at the apex of the sepaline tube]
Flower Size .1" [3mm]
Found in Loja province of Ecuador around 2000 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte with erect, slender ramicauls enveloped by 2 to 3, thin, tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, suberect, coriaceous, narrowly obovate, obtuse, gradually narrowing below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the summer on an erect, filiform, 5" [12 cm] long, distantly few flowered inflorescence arising from low on the ramicaul with a bract below the middle and at the base and thin tubular floral bracts.
Synonyms Spilotantha microsiphon (Luer) Luer 2006
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 3 Dodson 2002 drawing fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXV Masdevallia Part 5 Luer 2003 drawing fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVIII Luer 2006 as Spilotantha microsiphon; Orchidaceae Masdevallia and Affiliates Dodson & Luer 2009 drawing fide; Orchids Masdevallia with its segregates including Dracula Zelenko 2014 photo fide;
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