Masdevallia melanoglossa Luer 1989 SUBGENUS Masdevallia SECTION Masdevallia SUBSECTION Masdevallia
TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
Photo by © Duane McDowell and his Flickr Orchid Photo Website
Common Name or Meaning The Black Tongued Masdevallia
Flower Size 1.2" [3 cm]
Found in Loja province of Ecuador around 2600 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cold growing epiphyte with erect, slender, blackish ramicauls enveloped by 2 to 3, tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, narrowly elliptical, acute, gradually narrowing below below into the indistinct, slender petiolate base leaf that blooms in the summer on a horizontal, slender, congested, 2.4 to 2.8" [6 to 7 cm] long, successively single, few flowered inflorescence arising from low on the ramicaul with a bract below the middle and a tubular floral bract.
CAUTION I have my doubts about the photo determination above as # 1 the lip is not black, #2 the tails are orange yellow instead of light yellow and #3 the leaves appear to be too wide. So please use with caution
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXII Masdevallia Part 3 Luer 2001 drawing ok; A Treasure of Masdevallia Vol 26 Luer & Dalstroem 2001 watercolor ok; Orchidaceae Masdevallia and Affiliates Dodson & Luer 2009 drawing hmm
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