Masdevallia calocalix Luer 2002 SUBGENUS Masdevallia SECTION Masdevallia SUBSECTION Masdevallia
Photo courtesy of © Ellis Eyre
Photo by © Lourens Grobler
TYPE Drawing by Carl Luer
Common Name The Pretty Cup Masdevallia [refers to the sepaline cup]
Flower Size 3/4" [2 cm]
Found only in Morona-Santiago province of Ecuador at elevations around 1400 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cool growing epiphyte with slender, erect, ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 to 3 loose, tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptical, subacute, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the winter and spring on a erect, slender, 2.8" [7 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence arising from low on the ramicaul.
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Icones Pleurothallidinarum XXIII Systematics of Masdevallia Part 4 Luer 2002 drawing fide; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 3 Dodson 2002 as M calocalyx photo fide; Orchidaceae Masdevallia and Affiliates Dodson & Luer 2009 drawing fide; Orchids Masdevallia with its segregates including Dracula Zelenko 2014 photo fide;
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