Masdevallia irapana H.R.Sweet 1978 SUBGENUS Masdevallia SECTION Triotosiphon ( Schltr. ) H.R.Sweet 1978
Photo by © Tom Sijm
Drawing by © Carl Luer and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
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Common Name The Irapa Masdevallia [A community near where the species was discovered]
Flower Size .24" [6 mm]
Found in Sucre state of Venezuela on the Penninsula de Paris at elevations of 800 to 1000 meters as a mini-miniature sized, warm growing epiphyte with erect to suberect, slender, blackish ramicuals enveloped by 2 to 3 tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect to suberect, coriaceous, narrowly obovate, subacute, narrowed below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the late winter and early spring on a slender, erect to suberect, 4 to 4.6" [10 to 13 cm] long, single flowered inflorecence with a bract above the base and arising from low on the ramicaul and a tubular floral bract.
Synonyms Triotosiphon irapana (H.R.Sweet) Luer 2006
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 Vol XXV Masdevallia Part 5 Luer 2003 drawing fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXXI Luer 2006 as Triotosiphon irapana; Masdevallia in Detail Vol 5 Sijm etal 2010 photo/drawing fide; Orchids Masdevallia with its segregates including Dracula Zelenko 2014 photo fide;
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