Masdevallia ishikoi Luer 1995 SUBGENUS Masdevallia SECTION Masdevallia SUBSECTION Masdevallia

TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

Deep shade Cool Winter

Common Name Ishiko's Masdevallia [Japanese Co discover of species current]

Flower Size .8" [2 cm]

Found in Bolivia at elevations around 1500 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cool growing epiphyte with erect, stout ramicuals enveloped by 2 to 3 loose, tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, thickly coriaceous, narrowly obovate, obtuse, narrowly cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the winter on a slender, erect, .6 to .8" [1.5 to 2 cm] long, single flowered inflorecence with a bract at the base and arising from low on the ramicaul and a tubular floral bract.

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXII Masdevallia Part 3 Luer 2001 drawing fide;

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