Masdevallia andresiana Luer & Maduro 2005 SUBGENUS Polyantha SECTION Polyanthae SUBSECTION Successiviflorae Luer 2000
Photos by © Woodstream Orchdis and their Orchid Website
TYPE Drawing by Carl Luer
Common Name Andres' Masdevallia [Sr. Maduro, Panamanian Orchid Nurseryman current]
Flower Size 1" [2.5 cm] wide
Found in Bocas del Toro province of westernmost Panama at elevations around 1200 meters as a miniature to small sized, cool growing, caespitose epiphyte with erect, stout ramicauls enveloped by 2 to 3, loose, deciduous, tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, thickly coriaceous, obovate, acute, cuneate below into the stout, arising from the base of the ramiucal and has 2 to 3 distant bracts, deeply channeled petiuolate base leaf that blooms in the fall on an erect, very slender, 6" [15 cm] long, successively, loosely few flowered inflorecence with a tubular, shorter than the pedicel floral bract.
The photo above has M andresiana on the left and M maduroi on the right.
Previously thought to be a variant of M maduroi now put as a species differing from the more colorful, smaller flower that has a shallower mentum and shorter tails. The petals are smaller with the tall wing reduced to a marginal callus with a retrose tooth and the anterior extension of the column foot is longer. Also the fold that divides the lip into the epichile and hypochile is marginal unlike the non-marginal folds in M maduroi.
Synonyms Alaticaulia andresiana (Luer & Maduro) Luer 2007
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; * Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVII Systematics of Dryadella Systematics of Macrophyllae-Fasciculatae Luer 2005 drawing fide; Icones Pleurothallidianrum Vol XXIX A Third Century of Stelis of Ecuador Systematics of Apoda-Prorepentia Luer 2007as Alaticaulia andresiana; Orchids Masdevallia with its segregates including Dracula Zelenko 2014 photo fide;
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