Masdevallia cylix Luer & Malo 1988[1989] SUBGENUS Masdevallia SECTION Masdevallia SUBSECTION Caudatae Veitch 1889
Photo courtesy of Eric Hunt
Photo by © Lourens Grobler
TYPE Drawing by Carl Luer
Common Name The Cup-Like Masdevallia
Flower Size 1" [2.5 cm]
Found in southeastern Ecuador at an elevation of 2200 meters as a mini-miniature, cold growing epiphyte with an erect, slender, blackish ramicaul enveloped by 2 to 3, loose tubular sheaths carrying a single, erect, apical, coriaceous, elliptical, subacute, leaf that is cuneate below into the blackish petiole that blooms in the spring on a slender, erect, 1 3/5" to 2" long, inflorescence arising from low on the ramicaul with a bract near the base and a tubular floral bract carrying a single flower held at mid-leaf.
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; A Treasure of Masdevallia Vol 23 Luer & Dalstroem 1998 watercolor/drawing fide; Masdevallia'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; 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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