Masdevallia demissa Rchb.f. 1887 SUBGENUS Masdevallia SECTION Reichenbachianae Woolw. 1896
Photo by © Bogarin, Used under permission of Epidendra Website CR
Photo by Patricia Harding.
Common Name The Drooping Masdevallia
Flower Size 1 1/5" [3 cm]
Found in Costa Rica without locality data as a mini-miniature sized, cool? growing epiphyte with slender, erect ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 to 3 loose, tubular sheaths carrying a single, coriaceous, narrowly elliptical, obtuse leaf that is narrowly cuneate into the petiole and blooms in the spring on a slender, erect to suberect, single flowered inflorescence arising from low on the ramicaul with a bract above the base and a tubular floral bract.
Synonyms Reichantha demissa (Rchb. f.) Luer 2006
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Lankester's Epidendra Website CR ; Systematics of Masdevallia Vol 2 Luer 1986; Icones Orchidacearum Peruviarum Plate 288 Bennett & Christenson 1995; Icones Pleurothallidinarum XXI Systematics of Masdevallia Part 2 Luer 2000 drawing ok; Masdevallia's in Kleur Vol 1 P M Oversteegen, Eisses & A P Sijm 2001 photo fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum XXV Systematics of Masdevallia Part Five Luer 2003; Manual de Plantas de Costa Rica Vol 3 Hammel, Grayum, Herrera and Zamora 2003; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVIII Luer 2006 as Reichantha demissa; Orchids Masdevallia with its segregates including Dracula Zelenko 2014 photo fide; Vanishing Beauty, Native Costa Rican Orchids Vol 2 Lacaena to Pteroglossa Pupulin 2020 photo fide
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