Masdevallia medinae Luer & J.Portilla 2001 SUBGENUS Masdevallia SECTION Masdevallia SUBSECTION Masdevallia
Photo by © Lourens Grobler
Photo by Alfonso Doucette Copyright © 2009, and His Flicker website
TYPE Drawing by Carl Luer
Common Name Medina's Masdevallia [Ecuadorian Orchid Collector current]
Flower Size 1.6" [4 cm]
Found in southeastern Ecuador at elevations around 1500 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cool growing epiphyte with erect, slender, ramicauls enveloped by 2 to 3 loose, tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptical, obtuse, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring on a slender, sub-erect to sub-horizontal, 1.6 to 1.8" [4 to 4.5 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence arising from low on the ramicaul with a bract near the base and a tubular floral bract.
Only a few Masdevallia have small obtuse, petiolate base leaves and a relatively large, yellow to yellow-orange flower, they are M cranion, M deniseana and M glomerosa
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXII Part 3 Masdevallia Luer 2001 drawing fide; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 3 Dodson 2002 photo fide; A Treasure of Masdevallia Vol 27 Luer & Dalstroem 2004 watercolor fide; Orchidaceae Masdevallia and Affiliates Dodson & Luer 2009 drawing fide; Orchid Digest Vol 77 #3 2013 photo fide; Orchids Masdevallia with its segregates including Dracula Zelenko 2014 photo fide;
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