SUBGENUS Amanda Luer 1986

"Characterized by the caespitose to shortly ascending palnts that vary from mini-miniature to small in size, The leaves are petiolate. The racemes are loose or congested, nearly simultaneously flowered and borne by peduncles that are round in cross section, the floral bracts are often more or less inflated, the ovaries are carinate to crested, the sepals are caudate, and variously connate into a shallow cup or arcuate-cylindrical tube, the petals are callous on the labellar half, the margins are entire to denticulate and the shape of the apex is often spiculate but can vary within a species. The lip is more or less diivided by marginal folds into a hypochile and a smaller epichile. A delicate strap connects the base of the lip to the tip of the extension of the colum foot, or just under the tip of the extension as in the subgenus Meleagris." Luer 2003

SECTION TYPE

!Masdevallia amanda Rchb.f 1854

The Species

1. Masdevallia abbreviata Rchb. f. 1878 Ecuador, Peru

2. Masdevallia x alvaroi Luer & R.Escobar 1978 Colombia

3. !Masdevallia amanda Rchb. f. 1854 Venezuela, Colombia and Ecuador

4. Masdevallia anceps Luer & Hirtz 1991 Ecuador

5. Masdevallia aureoportensis (Luer & J.Leathers) J.M.H.Shaw 2016 ?

6. Masdevallia bulbophyllopsis Kraenzl. 1921 Ecuador

7. Masdevallia caloptera Rchb.f 1874 Colombia, Ecuador and Peru

8. Masdevallia chaetostoma Luer 1978 Ecuador

9. Masdevallia corazonica Schltr. 1921 Ecuador

10. Masdevallia dalestroemii Luer 1984 Ecuador

11. Masdevallia delphina Luer 1978 Ecuador

12. Masdevallia dimorphotricha Luer & Hirtz 1995 Ecuador

13. Masdevallia ferrusii [Luer] comb novo Pfahl 2014 Ecuador

14. Masdevallia graminea Luer 1979 Ecuador

15. Masdevallia hydrae Luer 1980 Ecuador

16. Masdevallia leathersii Luer 2004 Ecuador

17. Masdevallia lehmannii Rchb. f. 1877 Colombia, Ecuador

18. Masdevallia leptoura Luer 1983 Colombia, Ecuador, Peru

19. Masdevallia melanopus Rchb.f 1874 Peru

20. Masdevallia microsiphon Luer 1978 Ecuador

21. Masdevallia nigricans Königer & Sijm 2003 Ecuador

22. Masdevallia ortiziana ined. Colombia

23. Masdevallia ova-avis Luer 1978 Ecuador

24. Masdevallia pachyura Rchb. f. 1874 Ecuador

25. Masdevallia polysticta Rchb. f. 1874 Ecuador, Peru

26. Masdevallia porphyrea Luer 1980 Ecuador

27. Masdevallia pozoi Königer 1993 Ecuador, Peru

28. Masdevallia pulcherrima Luer & Andreetta 1980 Ecuador

29. Masdevallia rafaeliana Luer 1979 Costa Rica

30. Masdevallia segrex Luer & Hirtz 2003 Ecuador, Peru

31. Masdevallia sertula C.A.Luer & Andreetta 1991 Ecuador

32. Masdevallia staaliana Luer & Hirtz 1994 Ecuador

33. Masdevallia superbiens Luer & Hirtz 2005 Ecuador

34. Masdevallia tentaculata Luer 1982 Ecuador

35. Masdevallia tonsijmii (Luer) J.M.H.Shaw 2014 Ecuador

36. Masdevallia tridens Rchb. f. 1879 Colombia, Ecuador

37. Masdevallia virgo-rosea Buitr.-Delg., N.Peláez & Gary Mey. 2009 Colombia

38. Masdevallia vittatula Luer & R.Escobar 1996 Colombia, Ecuador

39. Masdevallia xanthodactyla Rchb.f. 1877 Ecuador, Peru

40. Masdevallia zygia Luer & Malo 1981 Ecuador

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