Masdevallia deburghgraevei Luer & Sijm 2012 SUBGENUS Masdevallia SECTION Masdevallia SUBSECTION Masdevallia
TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer
Common Name Deburghgraeve's Masdevallia [Belgian Orchid Enthusiast and Odotoglossum complex aficionado current]
Flower Size .4" [1 cm]
Found in Puno department of Peru at elevations around 2000 meters as a miniature sized, cool to cold growing, caespitose epiphyte with slender, erect, terete ramicauls enveloped by a tubular sheath above and another at the base carrying an erect, coriaceous, elliptical-obovate, subacute, gradually narrowing below into the long-petiolate base leaf that that blooms in the later spring on a slender, erect to suberect, peduncle 2" [5 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence with shorter than the pedicels floral bracts and carrying flowers with snow white sepals with a dark spot on either side above the base, white petals and a white lip
"Among the species of SUBGENUS Masdevallia SECTION Masdevallia SUBSECTION Masdevallia, this species from
southernmost Peru is most closely allied to
Masdevallia chuspipatae Luer & Teague from
central Bolivia. M deburgraevei differs from the latter by a
shorter and proportionately wider sepaline tube
with shorter tails. The tube is snow white with
a small, dark spot above the base, instead of
white suffused with orange below the middle.
The petals are distinctly unguiculate with long
processes above the claw that curve to meet
below the column. The lips of these two species
are superficially similar." Luer 2012
Synonyms References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
*Harvard Papers in Botany, Vol. 17, No. 2, pp. 333 to 368 2012 MISCELLANEOUS NEW SPECIES IN THE PLEUROTHALLIDINAE
(ORCHIDACEAE) Carlyle A. Luer drawing fide; Orchids Masdevallia with its segregates including Dracula Zelenko 2014 photo fide;
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