Masdevallia brockmuelleri Luer 2002 SUBGENUS Masdevallia SECTION Masdevallia SUBSECTION Caudatae Veitch 1889
Photo by © Tom Sijm
TYPE Drawing by Luer and © The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria
Common Name Brockmeuller's Masdevallia [German Orchid Enthusiast current]
Flower Size 1" [2.5cm]
Found in Colombia without locality as a mini-miniature sized epiphyte with erect, slender, blackish ramicauls enveloped by 2 to 3, loose, tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, narrowly elliptical, acute, gradually narrowing below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms on an erect, slender, to 2.8 to 4.4" [7 to 11 cm] long, single flowered inflroescence arising from low on the ramicaul holding the flower at the apex of the leaves with a tubular floral bract.
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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Icones Pleurothallidinarum XXIII Masdevallia Part 4 Luer 2002 drawing fide; Orchids Masdevallia with its segregates including Dracula Zelenko 2014 photo fide;
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