Masdevallia hians Linden & Rchb.f. 1854 SUBGENUS Masdevallia SECTION Masdevallia SUBSECTION Masdevallia
Photo by © Tom Sijm
Drawing by © Carl Luer and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
Original Drawing by © Padre Pedro Ortiz Conserved at the Herbario de la Universidad Javeriana, Bogota Colombia
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Common Name The Gaping Masdevallia [refers to the sepaline cup]
Flower Size .8" [2 cm]
Found in Norte de Santander department of Colombia in subparamo forests at elevations of 2600 to 3250 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cold growing epiphyte with erect, slender, blackish ramicauls enveloped by 2 to 3 thin, tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, narrowly elliptical-obovate, acute to subacute, narrowly cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring and fall on a slender, erect, 1.6 to 2.6" [4 to 6.5 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence arising from low on the ramicaul with a bract above the base.
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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Bonplandia Rchb.f 1854; Bonplandia Rchb.f 1855; Orquideologia Vol 16 No 1 1983; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXII MAsdevallia Part 3aLuer 2001 drawing fide; Libro Rojo de Plantas De Colombia Vol 6 Primera Parte Saenz 2007; Orchids Masdevallia with its segregates including Dracula Zelenko 2014 photo fide;
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