Masdevallia alexandri Luer 1980 SUBGENUS Meleagris Luer 1986
Photo courtesy of © Lourens Grobler
Photo by © Eric Hunt
TYPE Drawing by Carl Luer
Common Name Alexander Hirtz' Masdevallia [German Orchid Collector in Ecuador- late 20th cen]
Flower Size 3/8" [1 cm]
Found in Ecuador in cloud forests at elevations of 1500 to 2200 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte with slender, erect ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 to 3 thin, tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, suberect, thinly coriaceous, petiolate, elliptical, acute leaf that is cuneate below into the slender, channeled petiole where it blooms on an erect, slender, 3 5/8" [to 9 cm] long, successively few flowered inflorescence arising from low on the ramicaul with thin imbricating floral bracts and occuring in cultivation in the spring and carrying a single flower at a time.
Synonyms Rodrigoa alexandri (Luer) Braas 1982
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Phytologia 46: 347 Luer 1980; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Systematics of Masdevallia Vol 2 Luer 1986; Madevallia's in Kleur Vol 1 P M Oversteegen, Eisses & A P Sijm 2001 photo fide; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 3 Dodson 2002 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 74 No 10 2005 photo fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum XXV Systematics of Masdevallia Part Five Luer 2003 drawing fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum XXVIII Luer 2006 as Rodrigoa alexandri; Orchid Digest Vol 72 No 4 2008 photo fide; Orchidaceae Masdevallia and Affiliates Dodson & Luer 2009 as Rodrigoa alexandri photo/drawing fide; Orchids Masdevallia with its segregates including Dracula Zelenko 2014 photo fide;
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