Masdevallia oversteegeniana Luer & Sijm 2010 SUBGENUS Masdevallia SECTION Masdevallia SUBSECTION Saltatrices [Rchb.f] Luer 1986
Photo by © The Orchideen Vereniging Noord-Ooost Brabant Website
TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer
Common Name Oversteegen's Masdevallia [Dutch Orchid Enthusiast later 1900's]
Flower Size .8" [2 cm]
Found in San Martin department of Peru at elevations of 1000 to 1400 meters as a miniature sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with slender, erect ramicauls enveloped by 2 to 3 tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptical, acute to subacute, cuneate below into the elongate, petiolate base leaf that blooms in the fall on a slender, erect, 3.6" [9 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence with a bract near the base, arising from low on the ramicaul and has a tubular floral bract.
Similar to M ampullacea but differs in the longer, erect inflorescence carrying the flowers above the leaves, the longer sepaline tubes of the flower, the shorter free portion of the sepaline tails, the microscopic pubescence within the tube and the margins of the lip have only indistinct, short, rounded lobes above the middle.
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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Icones Pleurothallidinarum XXXI Luer 2010 drawing fide; Masdevallia in Detail Vol 5 Sijm etal 2010 photo/drawing fide; Orchids Masdevallia with its segregates including Dracula Zelenko 2014 photo fide;
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