Masdevallia chimboensis Kraenzl. 1925 SUBGENUS Pygmaeia SECTION Amaluzae SUBSECTION Amaluzae Luer 1986
Photo by © Tom Sijm
Photo by © R Parsons and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
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Common Name The Rio Chimbo Masdevallia [Eroneously appllied as this species is from Valle de Cauca Colombia not Rio Chimbo Ecuador]
Flower Size .4" [1 cm]
Found in Valle de Cauca department of Colombia in rainforests at elevations around 60 meters as a mini-miniature sized, hot growing epiphyte with slender, erect, ramicauls enveloped by 2 to 3 tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptical, subacute to obtuse, cuneate below into the shortly petiolate base leaf that blooms in the later spring on a slender, ascending, 1.4 to 1.8" [3.5 to 4.5 cm] long, green flecked with purple, distant, successively single, few flowered inflorescence arising from low on the ramicaul, with a bract near the base and another below the middle and thin tubular floral bracts.
Synonyms Luzama chimboensis (Kraenzl.) Luer 2006
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXI mASDEVALLIA pART 2Luer 2000 drawing ok; Masdevallia's in Kleur Vol 1 P M Oversteegen, Eisses & A P Sijm 2001 photo fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVIII Luer 2006 as Luzama chimboensis; Libro Rojo de Plantas De Colombia Vol 6 Primera Parte Saenz 2007; Orchids Masdevallia with its segregates including Dracula Zelenko 2014 photo fide;
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