Masdevallia pulcherrima Luer & Andreetta 1980 SUBGENUS Amanda Luer 1986
Photos by © Eric Hunt
Photo courtesy of © Lourens Grobler
Photo by Patricia Harding.
TYPE Drawing by Carl Luer
Common Name The Beautiful Masdevallia
Flower Size 1" [2.5 cm] wide
Found in Ecuador in cloud forests at elevations over 2000 meters as a miniature sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte with slender ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 to 3 imbricating sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, petiolate, elliptical, subacute leaf that is narrowly cuneate into the petiole that blooms in the summer on an erct then arching, simultaneously several flowered, 4 3/4" to 6 3/4" [12 to 17 cm] long, slender inflorescence arising from low on the ramicaul with bracts below the middle and at the base and a thin, oblique floral bract.
Synonyms Spilotantha pulcherrima (Luer & Andreetta) Luer 2006
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Phytologia 47: 57 1980;Systematics of Masdevallia Vol 2 Luer 1986; Masdevallia's in Kleur Vol 1 P M Oversteegen, Eisses & A P Sijm 2001 photo fide; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 3 Dodson 2002 photo not; Icones Pleurothallidinarum XXV Systematics of Masdevallia Part Five Luer 2003 drawing fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVIII Luer 2006 as Spilotantha pulcherrima; Orchidaceae Masdevallia and Affiliates Dodson & Luer 2009 as Spilotantha pulcherrima drawing fide; Mille et Une Mini Orchideees Roguenant 2009 photo fide; Orchids Masdevallia with its segregates including Dracula Zelenko 2014 photo fide;
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