Masdevallia vexillifera Luer 1993 SUBGENUS Masdevallia SECTION Masdevallia SUBSECTION Caudatae Veitch 1889
Photos by © Karma Forester and her Flickr Orchid Photo Website
TYPE Drawing by Carl Luer
Common Name The Banner Bearing Masdevallia [refers to the flower held high over the plant]
Flower Size 1" [2.5 cm]
Found in northern Peru without locational data as a mini-miniature sized epiphyte with slender, erect, black ramcauls enveloped by 2 to 3, tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, dark green, broadly elliptical, obtuse to rounded, cuneate below into the blackish petiolate base leaf that blooms in the fall on a slender, erect, 1.2 to 1.6" [3 to 4 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence arising from low on the ramicaul with a bract near the base and with a tubular floral bract.
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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXIII Masdevallia Part 4 Luer 2002 drawing fide; Orchids Masdevallia with its segregates including Dracula Zelenko 2014 photo fide;
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