Masdevallia mutica Luer & R.Escobar 1978 SUBGENUS Fissae Luer 2002
Photo by Ecuagenera and their Ecuador Orchid Website
TYPE Drawing by Carl Luer
Common Name or Meaning The Tailess Masdevallia
Flower Size .4" [1 cm]
Found in El Choco' and Valle de Cauca departments of Colombia at elevations around 2000 to 2300 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cold growing epiphyte with erect, slender ramicauls enveloped by 2 to 3, thin, tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, narrowly obovate, acute to subacute, gradually narrowing below into the slender, blackish petiolate base leaf that blooms in the fall through spring on an erect, slender, 2 to 4" [5 to 10 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence arising from low on the ramicaul with a bract above the base and an inflated, tubular, floral bract.
Synonyms Fissia mutica (Luer & R.Escobar) Luer 2006
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Orquideologia Vol 13 No 1 1978 photo/drawing/herbarium sheet; 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; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVIII Luer 2006 as Fissia mutica; Libro Rojo de Plantas De Colombia Vol 6 Primera Parte Saenz 2007 photo fide; Orchids Masdevallia with its segregates including Dracula Zelenko 2014 photo fide;
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