Masdevallia caloptera Rchb.f 1874 SUBGENUS Amanda Luer 1986
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Common Name The Beautiful-Winged Masdevallia
Flower Size 3/4" [2 cm]
Found in Colombia, Ecuador and Peru in dense, moist forests at elevations of 1800 to 2600 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte with erect, slender ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 to 3 tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, oblanceolate to narrowly spathulate leaf that is narrowing to a conduplicate base and blooms in the winter in cultivation on a erect, 6" [15 cm] long, terete, several [2 to 9] flowered inflorescence arising from low on the ramicaul with a bract below the middle and another at the base as well as thin, inflated floral bracts that envelop the pedicel and ovary and flowers held well above the leaves.
Synonyms Masdevallia biflora Regel 1891; Spilotantha caloptera (Rchb.f.) Luer 2006
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; AOS Bulletin Vol 38 No 1 1969 photo fide; Die Orchideen 3 Auflage Bd 1 Sonderabdruck aus Schlechter Lieferung 7 385 - 448 Brieger, Maatsch and Senghas 1975 photo fide; Systematics of Masdevallia Vol 2 Luer 1986; The Manual Of Cultivated Orchid Species Bechtel, Cribb & Launert 1992 photo fide; Madevallia's in Kleur Vol 1 P M Oversteegen, Eisses & A P Sijm 2001 photo fide; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 3 Dodson 2002 drawing fide; ; Icones Pleurothallidinarum XXV Systematics of Masdevallia Part Five 2003 drawing fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVIII Luer 2006 as Spilotantha caloptera; Orchid Species of Peru Zelenko Bermudez 2009 photo; Orchidaceae Masdevallia and Affiliates Dodson & Luer 2009 as Spilotantha caloptera drawing fide; Las Orquideas del Peru Izerskyy & Bezverhov 2011 photo fide; Orchids Masdevallia with its segregates including Dracula Zelenko 2014 photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 80 #2 2016 photo fide;
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