Masdevallia zygia Luer & Malo 1981 SUBGENUS Amanda Luer 1986
Photos by © Ron Parsons
TYPE Drawing by Carl Luer
Common Name The Yolk Like Masdevallia
Flower Size 2" [5 cm]
Found in Ecuador in cloud forests at elevations around 2000 to 2500 meters as a miniature sized, cold growing epiphyte with stout, erect, ramicauls enveloped by 2 to 3, loose, imbricating tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptical, subacute, subplicate, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring on a terete, erect, 7.2 to 9.6" [18 to 24 cm] long, simultaneously 2 flowered [often with a 3 aborted flower above] inflorescence arising from low on the ramicaul, with a bract below the middle and another at the base as well as an inflated floral bract.
Synonyms Spilotantha zygia (Luer & Malo) Luer 2006
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXV Madevallia Part 5 Luer 2003 drawing fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVIII Luer 2006 as Spilotantha zygia; Orchids Masdevallia with its segregates including Dracula Zelenko 2014 photo fide;
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