Masdevallia dejonghei (Luer & Sijm) J.M.H.Shaw 2014 SUBGENUS Pygmaeia SECTION Amaluzae SUBSECTION Amaluzae Luer 1986

Photo by Andre De Jonghe

TYPE Drawing of Luzama dejonghei

TYPE Drawing of Luzama dejonghei by © Carl Luer

Common Name De Jonghe's Masdevallia [Belgian Pleurothallid enthusiast and chairman of the Dutch Masdellia werkgroup current]

Flower Size .2" [5 mm] wide

Found in Cajamarca department of Peru as a mini-miniature sized, cool growing, caespitose epiphyte with sleender, erect ramicauls enveloped by 2 to 3 basal sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriceous, narrowly ellitpical-ovate, acutecontracted below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring on an erect, arising from low on the ramicaul, slender, peduncle 1.2" [3 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence with shorter than the ovary floral bracts and carrying white flowers.

"This minutely flowered species is characterized by acute, narrowly ovate leaves a little longer than the s;ender ramicauls; an erect, single flowered preduncle; thickly veined, long-acumiante sepals and entire, elliptical petals and lip that are more or lessbasically similar to other species in the genus." Luer 2011

Synonyms *Luzama dejonghei Luer & Sijm 2011

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

Harvard Papers in Botany Vol 16 No 2: 337 Luer, Thoerle and Werner 2011 as Luzama dejonghei;

Orchids Masdevallia with its segregates including Dracula Zelenko 2014 photo fide;

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