Masdevallia dalessandroi Luer 1985 SUBGENUS Masdevallia SECTION Masdevallia SUBSECTION Oscillantes Luer 1986
Photo courtesy of Eric Hunt
Photo by © Jay Pfahl
Photo courtesy of Patricia Harding
TYPE Drawing by Carl Luer
Common Name Dalesandro's Masdevallia [Ecuadorian discoverer of species late 1900's]
Flower Size 2" [5 cm]
Found in southeastern Ecuador in cloud forests at an elevation of 1000 to 2000 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cool growing epiphyte and with an erect, slender, blackish ramicaul enveloped by 2 to 3, tubular sheaths carrying a single, erect, apical, coriaceous, elliptical, subacute to acute, dark green leaf mottled grey beneath with a long petiole that blooms in the spring and summer on a slender, erect, 2 to 3" [5 to 7.5 cm] long, inflorescence arising from low on the ramicaul with a bract near the base carrying a single flower held at mid-leaf.
"Among the species related to M. wageneriana, this species may be distinguished by the long, filiform sepaline tails, narrowly oblong petals with a short, basal tooth, and an elliptical lip. In common with the other species the motile lip is convex basally and delicately hinged to a filiform extension from the column-foot." Luer 1985
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; * Phytologia 57: 62 Luer 1985; Systematics of Masdevallia Vol 2 Luer 1986; A Treasure of Masdevallia Vol 23 Luer & Dalstroem 1998 drawing fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum XXIII Systematics of Masdevallia Part 4 Luer 2002 drawing fide; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 3 Dodson 2002 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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