Masdevallia X wubbenii Luer 1987 SUBGENUS Masdevallia SECTION Masdevallia SUBSECTION Oscillantes Luer 1986
Photos by © Pieter C. Brouwer and his Nature Photo Website
Photo by © Lourens Grobler
TYPE Drawing by Carl Luer
Common Name Wubben's Masdevallia [Dutch Orchid Enthusiast current]
Flower Size 1 1/5" [3 cm]
Found in northern Venezuela in forests at elevations of 2200 meters as a miniature sized, cold growing epiphyte with slender, erect ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 to 3 tubular sheats carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptical, subacute to obtuse leaf that gradually narrow into the petiole and blooms in the spring on a slender, erect, 2 2/5" to 4" long, single flowered inflorescence arising from low on the ramicaul with a basal bract and a floral bract carrying the flower above the leaf.
This species is a natuarally occuring hybrid between M. triangularis and M. wageneriana.
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *AOS Bulletin Vol 56 No 11 1987 photo/drawing fide; Orchids Travel By Air A Pictoral Safari Mulder, Mulder-Roelfsema and Schuiteman 1990 photo fide; Masdevallia's in Kleur Vol 1 P M Oversteegen, Eisses & A P Sijm 2001 photo fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum XXIII Systematics of Masdevallia Part 4 Luer 2002 drawing fide; Orchids Masdevallia with its segregates including Dracula Zelenko 2014 photo fide;
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