Masdevallia elegans Luer & R. Escobar 1979 SUBGENUS Masdevallia SECTION Masdevallia SUBSECTION Masdevallia
Photo by © Eric Hunt
TYPE Drawing by Carl Luer
Common Name The Elegant Masdevallia
Flower Size 4" [10 cm]
Found in Peru at elevations around 3000 meters as a small sized, cold growing epiphyte with blackish, slender, erect ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 to 3 loose, tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptic, obtuse to rounded, gradually narrows below into the cuneate, petiolate base leaf that blooms on an erect, slender, single flowered, 4" [10 cm] long, inflorescence arising from low on the ramicaul with a bract near the base and a tubular floral bract
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Systematics of Masdevallia Vol 2 Luer 1986; Orchid Digest Vol 60 #3 1996 photo fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum XXII Systematics of Masdevellia Part 3 Luer 2001 drawing fide; Masdevallia's in Kleur Vol 1 P M Oversteegen, Eisses & A P Sijm 2001 photo fide; Orchid Species of Peru Zelenko Bermudez 2009 photo fide; Masdevallia in Detail Vol 5 Sijm etal 2010 photo/drawing fide; Las Orquideas del Peru Izerskyy & Bezverhov 2011 photo fide; Orchids Masdevallia with its segregates including Dracula Zelenko 2014 photo fide;
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