Masdevallia mentosa Luer 1978 SUBGENUS Pygmaeia SECTION Aphanes Luer 1986
Photo by © Lourens Grobler
TYPE Drawing by Carl Luer
Common Name The Chin Masdevallia [refers to the prominent mentum]
Flower Size .4" [1 cm]
Found in Pastaza province of Ecuador in rain forests at elevations around 900 meters as a mini-miniature sized, warm growing epiphyte with slender, erect ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 to 3, thin, tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, narrowly elliptical, subacute, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the winter on a slender, erect, 2 to 3.2" [5 to 8 cm] long, slightly triquetrous apically, congested, successively single flowered inflorescence arising from the base of the ramicaul with a bract above the base and tubular floral bracts.
Synonyms Luzama mentosa (Luer) Luer 2006; Masdevallia glossacles Luer 1989
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Systematics of Masdevallia Vol 2 Luer 1986 drawing fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum XXII Systematics of Masdevallia Part 2 Luer 2000 drawing fide; Masdevallia's in Kleur Vol 1 P M Oversteegen, Eisses & A P Sijm 2001 photo fide; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 3 Dodson 2002 drawing fide; A Treasure of Masdevallia Vol 28 Luer & Dalstroem 2006 watercolor fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVIII Luer 2006 as Luzama mentosa; Orchidaceae Masdevallia and Affiliates Dodson & Luer 2009 as Luzama mentosa drawing ok; Orchids Masdevallia with its segregates including Dracula Zelenko 2014 photo fide;
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