Masdevallia anomala Luer & Sijm 2003 SUBGENUS Masdevallia SECTION Coriaceae SUBSECTION Coriaceae Rchb.f 1874 TYPE Drawing by Carl Luer and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

Common Name or Meaning The Unusual Masdevallia [refers to the combination of morphological features]

Flower Size 1" [2.5 cm]

Found in central Peru at elevations around 1500 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cool growing epiphyte with stout, blackish, erect ramicauls enveloped by a loose, tubular sheath and another at the base and carrying a single, apical, erect, thickly coriaceous, narrowly elliptical, subacute, gradually narrowing below into the blackish petiolate base leaf that blooms on an erect to suberect, terete to 3.6" [to 9 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence

Synonyms Byrsella anomala (Luer & Sijm) Luer 2006

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Pleurothallidianrum Vol XXV Masdevallia Part 5 Luer 2003 drawing fide; Icones Pleurothallidianrum Vol XXVIII Luer 2006 as Byrsella anomala

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