Masdevallia schoonenii Luer 1993 SUBGENUS Masdevallia SECTION Masdevallia SUBSECTION Masdevallia
TYPE Drawing by Carl Luer
Drawing by © Stig Dalstrom and The Missouri Botanical Garden Press Website
Common Name or Meaning Schoonen's Masdevallia [Dutch Discoverer of species current]
Flower Size .8" [2 cm]
Found in Amazonas department of Peru near Pomacochas at elevations around 2100 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cold growing epiphyte with slender, blackish, erect ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 to 3 loose, tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, dark green, elliptical, obtuse, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the fall on an slender, erect, 1.8 to 2.2" [4.5 to 5.5 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence arising from near the base of the ramicaul, with a thin bract at the base and has a tubular floral bract.
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXII Masdevallia Part 3 Luer 2001 drawing fide; Masdevallia's in Kleur Vol 1 P M Oversteegen, Eisses & A P Sijm 2001 photo fide;
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