Masdevallia scalpellifera Luer 1997 SUBGENUS Pygmaeia SECTION Aphanes Luer 1986
Photo by Alfonso Doucette Copyright © 2009, and His Flicker website
Photo by Alfonso Doucette Copyright © 2009, and His Flicker Orchid Photo website
TYPE Drawing by Carl Luer
Common Name The Scalpel-Carryng Masdevallia [refers to the lip]
Flower Size .2" [5 mm]
Found in southern Ecuador at elevations around 2700 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cold growing epiphyte with slender, erect ramicauls enveloped by 2 to 3 loose, tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, narrowly obovate, subacute to obtuse, narrowly cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the summer on a suberect, slender, congested, 2" [5 cm] long, slow succession of single, few flowered inflorescence arising from low on the ramicaul witha tubular floral bract.
Synonyms Luzama scalpellifera (Luer) Luer 2006
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXI Masdevallia Part 2 Luer 2000 drawing fide; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 3 Dodson 2002 Drawing fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVIII Luer 2006 as Luzama scalpellifera; Orchidaceae Masdevallia and Affiliates Dodson & Luer 2009 as Luzama scalpellifera drawing ok; Orchids Masdevallia with its segregates including Dracula Zelenko 2014 photo fide;
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