SUBGENUS Nidifica Luer 2000
"Characterized by the small, caespitose habit with narrow, obovate leaves, the single flowered peduncle, more or less iflated floral bracts, carinate crested ovaries, sepals connate into a tube with an inflated base created by a long, curved column foot and the lip divided by marginal folds into a hypochile and an epichile, which stands more or less erect within the flower." Luer 2000
SUBGENUS TYPE
!Masdevallia nidifica Rchb.f 1878
The Species
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