Masdevallia kyphonantha H.R.Sweet 1978 SUBGENUS Masdevallia SECTION Triotosiphon ( Schltr. ) H.R.Sweet 1978
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Photo by © Karl Senghas and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
Common Name The Hump-Backed Masdevallia
Flower Size .2" [5 mm]
Found in northern coastal Venezuela at elevations around 1250 to 2000 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cool growing epiphyte with slender, erect, blackish ramicauls envelopd basally by 2 to 3 close, tubualr sheaths and carrying a single, apical, thickly coriaceous, sulcate, narrowly linear, narrowly obtuse, gradually narrowing below into the indistinct petiolate base leaf that blooms in the summer on an erect, slender, .4 to 1" [1 to 2.5 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence with a bract below the middle, arising from low on the ramicaul and has a tubular floral bract
Synonyms Masdevallia pseudominuta H.R.Sweet 1978; Triotosiphon kyphonantha (H.R.Sweet) Luer 2006
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Venezuelan Orchids Illustrated Vol 4 Dunsterville & Garay 1966 as M minuta drawing fide; Flora de Venezuela Volumen 15 Parte 3 Foldats 1970 as M minuta drawing fide; Orchids of Venezuela An Illustrated Field Guide Vol 2 Dunsterville & Garay 1979 drawing fide; Orchids of Venezuela An Illustrated Field Guide Vol 2 Dunsterville & Garay 1979 as M pseudominuta drawing ok; Venezuela; Paraiso de Orquideas Romero 1997 as M pseudominuta photo fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum XXV Masdevallia Part 5 Luer 2001 drawing fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVIII Luer 2006 as Triotosiphon kyphonantha; Orchids of Venezuela [An illustrated field guide] Vol. 2 Ramiro and Carnevali 2000 drawing fide; Orchids Masdevallia with its segregates including Dracula Zelenko 2014 photo fide;
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