Masdevallia mariposa A.Doucette, J.Portilla & G.Merino 2015 SUBGENUS Masdevallia SECTION Masdevallia SUBSECTION Caudatae Veitch 1889
Comparison photo of similar orchid flowers
Comparison photo of floral parts
Photos/TYPE Drawing by Alfonso Doucette
Common Name The Butterfly Like Masdevallia
Flower Size 1.2" [3 cm]
Found in Zamora-Chinchipe province of Ecuador at elevations around 2000 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cool to cold growing caespitose epiphyte with semi-terete, sulcate adaxially, keeled abaxially ramicauls enveloped by 3 sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptic, acute, gradually narrowing below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the winter on an erect to horizontal, peduncle slender, 1.6 to 2.4" [4 to 6 cm] long, enveloped by 2 tubular bracts, single flowered inflorescence.
"The species is similar to M xanthina but differs in the more deeply connate sepals and the lip with 3 calli instead of a single apical callus." Doucette 2015
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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; * AOS Bulletin Vol 84 #8 A.Doucette, J.Portilla & G.Merino 2015 photo/drawing fide;
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