Masdevallia immensa Luer 2000 SUBGENUS Masdevallia SECTION Masdevallia SUBSECTION Caudatae Veitch 1889
Photo by © Eric Hunt
TYPE Drawing by Carl Luer
Common Name The Immense Masdevallia [refers to the flowers size]
Flower Size 2 1/2" [6.25 cm]
Found in Huanuco department of Peru in cloud forests at elevations around 1800 meters as a miniature sized, cool growing, caespitose epiphyte with blackish, slender, ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 to 3 tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, petiolate, narrowly elliptical, obtuse leaf with the base cuneate into the petiole that blooms in the summer on a erect, arising from low on the ramicaul with a bract above the base, slender, 4 to 5 1/4" [10 to 13 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence with a shorter than the pedicel floral bract and carrying a giant white flower .
Similar to M klabachorum but differs in the much larger white flower with the dorsal sepal broadly and shallowly concave as well as the lateral sepals much more acutely reflexed.
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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; * Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XX Systematics of Jostia, Andinia, Barbosella, Barbrodia & Pleurothallis subgen Antilla, Effusia and Restrepioidia Luer 2000 drawing fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum XXIII Systematics of Masdevallia Part 4 Luer 2002 drawing fide; A Treasure of Masdevallia Vol 27 Luer & Dalstroem 2004 watercolor fide; Orchids Masdevallia with its segregates including Dracula Zelenko 2014 photo fide;
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