Masdevallia leontoglossa Rchb.f. 1855 SUBGENUS Masdevallia SECTION Coriaceae SUBSECTION Coriaceae Rchb.f 1874
By Badlydrawnboy22 and his Flickr Orchid Photo Website
Drawing By Reichenbach and Wikipedia
Common Name The Lion Tongued Masdevallia
Flower Size 1" [2.5 cm]
Found in Norte de Santander department of Colombia in subparamo forests on mossy tree trunks at elevations of 2600 to 3100 meters as a miniature sized, cold growing epiphyte with erect, stout ramicauls envelops basal,y by 2 to 3, loose, tubular sheaths and carryuing a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, more or less mottled with purple, elliptical, subacute to obtuse, cuneate below into the purple mottled petiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring on a relatively stout, ascending to descending [1 to 2 cm] long, single flowered inflroescence arising from low on the ramicaul with a bract at the base and a lightly spotted with purple, tubular floral bract
Synonyms Byrsella leontoglossa (Rchb.f.) Luer 2006
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Bonplandia Rchb.f 1855; Die Orchideen Schlechter 1915; Atlas des Orchidees Cultivees Constantin 1920 drawing ok; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; Systematics of Masdevallia Vol 2 Luer 1986 as Masdevallia leontoglossa; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 6 COS 1998 photo fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum XXI Systematics of Masdevallia Part 2 Luer 2000 drawing fide; Masdevallia's in Kleur Vol 1 P M Oversteegen, Eisses & A P Sijm 2001 photo fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVIII Luer 2006 as Byrsella leontoglossa; Libro Rojo de Plantas De Colombia Vol 6 Primera Parte Saenz 2007; Orchids Masdevallia with its segregates including Dracula Zelenko 2014 photo fide;
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