Masdevallia lophina Luer & Sijm 2010 SUBGENUS Masdevallia SECTION Masdevallia SUBSECTION Caudatae Veitch 1889
TYPE Photo by © Tom Sijm
TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
Common Name The Cock's Comb Masdevallia [refers to the callus at the tip of the lip]
Flower Size .8" [2 cm]
Found in Amazonas department of Peru without locality as a mini-miniature sized epiphyte with erect, stout ramicuals enveloped by 2 to 3 tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptical-obovate, obtuse to rounded, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the fall on a slender, suberect, 2.8" [7 cm] long, single flowered inflorecence with a bract below the middle and arising from low on the ramicaul with a tubular floral bract.
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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXXI Luer 2010 drawing fide; Masdevallia in Detail Vol 5 Sijm etal 2010 photo/drawing fide;
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