Masdevallia rex Luer & Hirtz 1989 SUBGENUS Masdevallia SECTION Masdevallia SUBSECTION Saltatrices [Rchb.f] Luer 1986
Photo by Patrick and Martina Cloes
Photo by Eric Hunt, plant grown by Golden Gate Orchids.
TYPE Drawing by Carl Luer
Common Name The Kingly Masdevallia
Flower Size 1.2" [3 cm]
Found in Ecuador in wet montane forests ate elevations of 600 to 950 meters as a miniature, warm growing epiphyte with erect, blackish ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 to 3 tubular sheaths carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptical-obovate, obtuse leaf that is narrowly cuneate into the petiole and blooms in the summer on an erect, stout, 1 1/4" to 1 1/2" [3 to 3.5 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence arising from the base of the ramicaul with a bract above the base and a tubular floral bract.
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; 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 to the first photo; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 3 Dodson 2002 photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 72 No 4 2008 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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