Masdevallia mandarina (Luer & R.Escobar) Luer 2002 SUBGENUS Masdevallia SECTION Masdevallia SUBSECTION Caudatae Veitch 1889
Photo by Alfonso Doucette Copyright © 2009, and His Flicker website
Photo by Ecuagenera and their Ecuador Orchid Website
TYPE Drawing by Carl Luer
Common Name or Meaning The Red-Orange Masdevallia [refers to Flower Color]
Flower Size2" [5 cm]
Found in Antioquia department of Colombia, Ecuador and Peru around 1600 to 2400 meters as a miniature sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte with erect, slender, blackish ramicauls enveloped by 2 to 3, loose tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptical, obtuse, cuneate below into the elongate, blackish petiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring on a an erect to suberect, slender, 1.6 to 2.4" [4 to 6 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence arising from low on the ramicaul with a bract at the base and a tubular floral bract.
Synonyms Masdevallia xanthina subsp. mandarina Luer & R.Escobar, Lindleyana 3: 64 (1988
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXIII Masdevallia Part 4 Luer 2002 drawing fide; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 3 Dodson 2002 as M xanthina subsp mandarina photo fide; Libro Rojo de Plantas De Colombia Vol 6 Primera Parte Saenz 2007 photo ok; Orchid Species of Peru Zelenko Bermudez 2009 photo fide; Orchidaceae Masdevallia and Affiliates Dodson & Luer 2009 drawing fide; Orchids Masdevallia with its segregates including Dracula Zelenko 2014 photo fide;
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