Masdevallia truncata Luer 1993 SUBGENUS Masdevallia SECTION Masdevallia SUBSECTION Masdevallia
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Drawing by © Carl Luer and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
Common Name or Meaning The Truncate Masdevallia [refers to the lip]
Flower Size .4" [1 cm]
Found in Morona-Santiago province of Ecuador without collection data as a mini-miniature sized epiphyte with erect, slender ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 to 3, tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, narrowly elliptical, subacute , narrowly cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the winter on a slender, erect, 2.4 to 2.6" [6 to 6.5 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence with a bract at the base, arising from low on the ramicaul with a tubular floral bract and holding the flower just above leaf height.
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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXII Luer 2001 drawing fide; Masdevallia's in Kleur Vol 1 P M Oversteegen, Eisses & A P Sijm 2001 photo fide; Orchids Masdevallia with its segregates including Dracula Zelenko 2014 photo fide;
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