Masdevallia calura Rchb. f. 1883 SUBGENUS Masdevallia SECTION Reichenbachianae Woolw. 1896
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Common Name The Long-Sepaled Masdevallia
Flower Size 3 1/2" [9 cm]
Found in Costa Rica in montane rainforests at elevations of 200 to 2000 meters as a mini-miniature sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with erect stems covered by 2 to 3 tubular bracts with a single, apical, coriaceous, narrowly obovate leaf that blooms on an erect to arching, 3" to 4 3/4" [7 to 12 cm] long, few flowered inflorescence arising on a mature stem with the single successive flower held above the leaves and occuring in the summer.
Synonyms Reichantha calura (Rchb.f.) Luer 2006
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Lankester's Epidendra Website CR ; Repert. Sp. Nov. Regni. Veg. Beih. 19: 276. Costa Rica Schlechter 1923; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; Systematics of Masdevallia Vol 2 Luer 1986; The Manual Of Cultivated Orchid Species Bechtel, Cribb & Launert 1992; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum plate 1545 Atwood 1993 drawing fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum XXI Systematics of Masdevallia Part 2 Luer 2000 drawing fide; Madevallia's in Kleur Vol 1 P M Oversteegen, Eisses & A P Sijm 2001 photo fide; Manual de Plantas de Costa Rica Vol 3 Hammel, Grayum, Herrera and Zamora 2003; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVIII Luer 2006 as Reichantha calura; Orchids Masdevallia with its segregates including Dracula Zelenko 2014 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 88 #10 2019 photo fide; Vanishing Beauty, Native Costa Rican Orchids Vol 2 Lacaena to Pteroglossa Pupulin 2020 photo fide
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