Masdevallia deformis Kraenzel. 1921 SUBGENUS Masdevallia SECTION Masdevallia SUBSECTION Coccineae Veitch 1889

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Inflorescecnce

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Plant and Flowers

Photo by Dale Borders, plant grown by Jim Rassmann.

M deformis var exaltata

Photo by Malcolm Perry

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Common Name The Misshapen Masdevallia

Flower Size 3/4" [2 cm]

Found in Ecuador and Peru at elevations of 1700 to 2800 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte with blackish, erect, slender ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 to 3 loose, tubular sheaths and carrying a single, erect, coriaceous, dark green, petiolate, elliptical, subacute to obtuse, cuneate below into the blackish petiolate base leaf that blooms in the fall, winter, spring and summer on a horizontal to ascending, 1 5/8" to 4" [4 to 10 cm] long, solitary flowered inflorescence.

Synonyms Masdevallia deformis f. exaltata (Luer) O.Gruss & M.Wolff 2007; Masdevallia exaltata Luer 1982

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

Selbyana 7: 10 Luer 1982 as M exaltata drawing fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 51 No 3 1982 photo fide; Systematics of Masdevallia Vol 2 Luer 1986; Orchids Travel By Air A Pictoral Safari Mulder, Mulder-Roelfsema and Schuiteman 1990 photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 63 #1 1999 as M deformis var exaltata photo fide; Masdevallia's in Kleur Vol 1 P M Oversteegen, Eisses & A P Sijm 2001 photo fide; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 3 Dodson 2002 photo fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum XXV Systematics of Masdevallia Part Five 2003 drawing fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 75 No 5 2006 photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 72 No 4 2008 as M exaltata photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 77 #5 2008 photo fide; Orchidaceae Masdevallia and Affiliates Dodson & Luer 2009 drawing fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 80 #3 2011 photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 76 #2 2012 photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 78 #4 2014 photo fide; Orchids Masdevallia with its segregates including Dracula Zelenko 2014 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 84 #4 2015 photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 80 #3 2016 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 85 #1 2016 photo fide;

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