Masdevallia lamprotyria Königer 1980 SUBGENUS Masdevallia SECTION Masdevallia SUBSECTION Masdevallia
Photos courtesy of Lourens Grobler
Photo courtesy of Eric Hunt, plant grown by Marni Turkel
Common Name The Bright Purple Masdevallia
Flower Size 1 1/2" [3.75 cm]
Found in Ecuador and northern Peru in cloud forests at elevations around 1000 to 2000 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cool growing epiphyte with slender, erect ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 to 3 thin, tubular sheaths carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, narrowly elliptic, acute leaf with the base narrowly cuneate into the petiole. Blooming in the spring on a shorter than the leaves, 3 1/5" to 4 3/5" [8 to 9 cm] long, slender, erect, single flowered inflorescence arising from low on the ramicaul with a bract near the base and a tubular floral bract that has the flower held near mid-leaf.
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Thesarus Masdevalliarum Vol 1 Luer & Treschslin 1983 watercolor fide; Systematics of Masdevallia Vol 2 Luer 1986; Icones Pleurothallidinarum XXII Systematics of Masdevallia Part 3 Luer 2001 drawing fide; Masdevallia's in Kleur Vol 1 P M Oversteegen, Eisses & A P Sijm 2001 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 72 No 3 2003 photo fide; Orchid Species of Peru Zelenko Bermudez 2009 photo fide; Orchidaceae Masdevallia and Affiliates Dodson & Luer 2009 drawing ok; Mille et Une Mini Orchideees Roguenant 2009 photo fide; Las Orquideas del Peru Izerskyy & Bezverhov 2011 photo fide; Orchids Masdevallia with its segregates including Dracula Zelenko 2014 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 86 #5 2017 photo fide;
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