Masdevallia manningii Königer 2001
SUBGENUS Polyantha
Photo by © Manolo Arias
Drawing by © Carl Luer and The Epidendra Website
Common Name Manning's Masdevallia [English Orchid Enthusaist and Pleurothallidinae specialist current]
Flower Size 1.2" [3 cm]
Found in Huanuco department of Peru at elevations around 1000 meters as a mini-miniature sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with furrowed, erect ramicauls enveloped by 3 scarious, tubular sheaths and carrying a single,apical, erect, coriaceous, narrowly elliptical, subacute, gradually narrowing below into the base leaf that blooms on an erect, stout, triquetrous, straight, 3.6" [9 cm] long, successively single flowered inflorescence with plicate-tubular, truncate apically floral bracts and carries slightly fragrant flowers
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Arcula 11: 282. Koniger 2001 drawing fide; Orchids Masdevallia with its segregates including Dracula Zelenko 2014 photo fide;
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