Masdevallia stigii Luer & L.Jost 2003 SUBGENUS Masdevallia SECTION Masdevallia SUBSECTION Caudatae Veitch 1889
Photo by © Lou Jost
TYPE Drawing by © Stig Dalstrom and The Missouri Botanical Garden Press Website
TYPE Drawing TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
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Common Name or Meaning Stig's Masdevallia [Swedish Orchid Illustrator current]
Flower Size .8" [2 cm]
Found in Pastaza province of Ecuador without locality at elevations around 1500 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cool growing epiphyte with erect, slender ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 loose, tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptical to broadly elliptical, obtuse to rounded,cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the later summer on a slender, more or less horizontal to suberect, 1.4" [3.5 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence with a bract at the base, arising from low on the ramicaul and has a tubular floral bract and holding the flower at leaf height.
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXV Masdevallia Part 5 Luer 2003 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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