SUBGENUS Fissia Luer 2000
"Characterized by the small and densely caespitose habit with narrowly linear to narrowly obovate leaves. The peduncles are slnder, terete and sinlge flowered. The ovaries are deeply tortuous-undulate. The sepals are essentially free from each other, Although long-caudate in M picturata, the sepals are tailess in the other species in the subsection. The petals are callous on the labellar margin with the apex sharply tridentate. The lip is oblong and obtuse, with marginal folds near the middle that divide the lip into an epichile and a hypochile." Luer 2000
SUBGENUS TYPE
!Masdevallia picturata Echb.f 1878
The Species
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