Masdevallia amoena Luer 1999 SUBGENUS Masdevallia SECTION Masdevallia SUBSECTION Oscillantes Luer 1986
Photo by © Lourens Grobler
TYPE Drawing by Carl Luer
Common Name The Lovely Masdevallia
Flower Size 1.2" [3 cm]
Found in Ecuador without collection data as a mini-miniature sized, cool growing, caespitose epiphyte with blackish, erect, slender ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 to 3 loose, tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptical, acute, narrowly cuneate below into the blackish, elongate petiolate base leaf that blooms in the summer on a slender, ascending to horizontal, 1.6 to 2.4" [4 to 6 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence arising from low on the ramicaul and a tubular floral bract.
"The superficially similar Masdevallia rosacea of the SUBGENUS Masdevallia SECTION Masdevallia SUBSECTION Caudatae Veitch 1889 differs from M amoena by the glabrous, white sepals lightly suffused with rose below the middle and a concave dorsal sepal. The sepals of M. amoena are light rose, suffused with yellow toward the base, and the dorsal sepal is not concave. The lip of M. rosacea differs by being oblong and more or less flat and featureless, while the lip of M. amoena is more or less winged with a slight constriction below the recurved tip. " Luer 2012
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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; * Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XVIII Systematics of Pleurothallis subsection Antenniferae, Longiracemosae, Macrophyllae-Racemosae and Subgenera Pseudsostelis and Acuminata Luer 1999drawing fide; Masdevallia's in Kleur Vol 1 P M Oversteegen, Eisses & A P Sijm 2001 photo fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum XXIII Systematics of Masdevallia Part 4 Luer 2002 drawing fide; A Treasure of Masdevallia Vol 28 Luer & Dalstroem 2006 watercolor fide; Orchidaceae Masdevallia and Affiliates Dodson & Luer 2009 drawing fide; Harvard Papers in Botany, Vol. 17, No. 2, pp. 333 to 368 2012 MISCELLANEOUS NEW SPECIES IN THE PLEUROTHALLIDINAE (ORCHIDACEAE) Carlyle A. Luer; Orchids Masdevallia with its segregates including Dracula Zelenko 2014 photo fide;
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