Masdevallia lamia Luer & Hirtz 1988 SUBGENUS Nidificia Luer 2000
Photo by © Luis Perez and The Wikimedia Commons Website
Drawing by © Carl Luer and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
Common Name The Bugbear Masdevallia [refers to the goblin-like appearance of the flower]
Flower Size .28" [7 mm]
Found in Esmeraldas and Carchi provinces of Ecuador at elevations around 750 to 2400 meters as a mini-miniature sized, warm to cold growing epiphyte with erect, slender ramicuals enveloped by 2 to 3 tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, narrowly elliptical, subacute, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the summer on a slender, erect, .75 to .8" [1.7 to 2 cm] long, single flowered inflorecence with a bract at the base and arising from low on the ramicaul.
Synonyms Buccella lamia (Luer & Hirtz) Luer 2006
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXV Masdevallia Part 5 Luer 2003 drawing fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVIII Luer 2006 as Buccella lamia;
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