Masdevallia epallax Königer 1994 SUBGENUS Masdevallia SECTION Reichenbachianae Woolw. 1896
Photo by A P Sijm/ Side View by Klaus Eisses
TYPE Drawing by Koniger and The Epidendra Website
Photo courtesy of Patricia Harding
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EARLY 
Common Name The Crosswise Masdevallia [refers to the crossed tails]
Flower Size 1 1/4" [3 cm]
Found only once in a greenhouse in Munich Germany, spontaneously arising in a pot of Masdevallia marginella, so many feel it may be from Costa Rica but it could be a spontaneous hybrid as well. There are many spontaneous hybrids occuring in greenhouses around the world in the Masdevallia. The plant has slender, erect ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 to 3 loose tubular sheaths carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptical, subacute leaf thar is narrowly cuneate below into the slender petiole and blooms in the late winter and early spring on a slender, suberect, 2 to 2 3/4" [5 to 7 cm] long, successively single flowered inflorescence arising from low on the ramicaul with a bract above the base and a floral bract
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXI Luer 2000 drawing ok as M enallax; Masdevallia's in Kleur Vol 1 P M Oversteegen, Eisses & A P Sijm 2001 photo fide; Orchids Masdevallia with its segregates including Dracula Zelenko 2014 photo fide;
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