Masdevallia molossoides Kraenzl. 1921 SUBGENUS Nidificia Luer 2000
Photo by Ecuagenera and their Ecuador Orchid Website
Common Name or Meaning The Molossus-Like Masdevallia
Flower Size .4" [1 cm]
Found in Costa Rica and Panama around 1000 to 2500 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte with erect, slender ramicauls enveloped by 2 to 3, tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptical, subacute to obtuse, narrowly cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms at any time of the year on an erect, slender, 1.2 to 1.8" [3 to 4.5 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence arising from low on the ramicaul with a bract near the base and a tubular floral bract.
Synonyms Buccella molossoides (Kraenzl.) Luer 2006; Masdevallia anura Kraenzl. 1921; Masdevallia rhopalura Schltr.1923
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Repert. Sp. Nov. Regni. Veg. Beih. 19: 14. Costa Rica Schlechter 1923 as M rhopalura; Repert. Sp. Nov. Regni. Veg. Beih. 19: 93. Costa Rica Schlechter 1923 as M rhopalura; Repert. Sp. Nov. Regni. Veg. Beih. 19: 170 Costa Rica Schlechter 1923 as M rhopalura; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 1038 Hamer 1984 Drawing fide; Orchids Travel By Air A Pictoral Safari Mulder, Mulder-Roelfsema and Schuiteman 1990 photo fide; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 1551 Mora & Atwood 1993 drawing fide; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 1551a Mora & Atwood 1993 drawing fide; Masdevallia's in Kleur Vol 1 P M Oversteegen, Eisses & A P Sijm 2001 photo fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXV Masdevallia Part 5 Luer 2003 drawing fide; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 3 Dodson 2002 photo Fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVIII Luer 2006 as Buccella molossoides; Orchidaceae Masdevallia and Affiliates Dodson & Luer 2009 as Buccella molossoides drawing ok; Orchids Masdevallia with its segregates including Dracula Zelenko 2014 photo fide; Lankesteriana 19(1). 31 - 55 2019 photo fide; Vanishing Beauty, Native Costa Rican Orchids Vol 2 Lacaena to Pteroglossa Pupulin 2020 photo fide
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