Masdevallia royi [Luer] Pfahl comb novo 2014 SUBGENUS Polyantha SECTION Alaticaules SUBSECTION Alaticaules [Krzl.] Luer 1986
Photos by © Liana Webb and The Griffin Mountain Orchids Website
TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
Common Name or Meaning Roy's Masdevallia [English Orchid Enthusiast and cultivator of species]
Flower Size 1.2" [3 cm]
Found in Peru without collection data as a small sized, caespitose epiphyte with erect, stout ramicauls enveloped by a 2 to 3 loose, tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, thickly coriaceous, linear-elliptic, subacute to obtuse, narrowly cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring on an erect, arising from low on the ramicaul, subtended by a bract near the base, strong, triquetrous, 10" [25 cm] long, subcongested, successively few flowered inflorescence with tubular, shorter than the pedicel floral bracts and holding the flower above the leaf.
"Similar to M mezae but differs in the lip and petals, also similar to M cinnomonea with equally large flowers but its flowers are brown to yellow externally and dotted with brown internally and produced simultaneously in a few flowered raceme. M royi and M mezae have a slowly successive raceme of long-tailed pale yellow green fkiwers with the sepals minutely dotted in purple." Luer 2006
Synonyms *Alaticaulia royi Luer 2006
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVIII A Reconsideration of Masdevallia Systematics of Specklinia Luer 2006as Alaticaulia royii drawing fide; * Internet Orchid Species Photo Encyclopedia 2014 drawing fide;
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