Masdevallia bottae Luer & Andreetta 1980 SUBGENUS Masdevallia SECTION Masdevallia SUBSECTION Caudatae Veitch 1889
Photo courtesy of © Lourens Grobler.
Photo courtesy of Eric Hunt, Plant grown by Marni Turkel.
TYPE Drawing by Carl Luer
Common Name Botta's Masdevallia [Salesien Missionary and CoDiscoverer of Species- Current]
Flower Size 2" [5 cm]
Found only in Ecuador in rainforest at elevations of 1500 to 2200 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte with blackish, slender, erect ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 to 3 tubular sheaths carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, petiolate, elliptical, obtuse to rounded apically leaf that is cuneate into the slender, blackish petiole that blooms in the spring on a slender, suberect, 1 3/5" to 2 3/4" [4 to 7 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence arising from low on the ramicaul, with a bract near the base and a tubular floral bract holding the flower at leaf height.
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Phytologia 47: 57 1980;Systematics of Masdevallia Vol 2 Luer 1986; A Treasure of Masdevallia Vol 21 Luer & Dalstroem 1996 drawing fide; Madevallia's in Kleur Vol 1 P M Oversteegen, Eisses & A P Sijm 2001 photo fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum XXIII Systematics of Masdevallia Part 4 Luer 2002 drawing fide; Orchidaceae Masdevallia and Affiliates Dodson & Luer 2009 photo/drawing fide; as M boliviewnse ssp leucophaeae
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