Masdevallia midas Luer 1981 SUBGENUS Masdevallia SECTION Masdevallia SUBSECTION Masdevallia
Photo by © Ecuagenera Orchid Website
TYPE Drawing by Carl Luer
Common Name or Meaning The Midas Masdevallia [refers to the golden fingers or tails of the petals]
Flower Size .4" [1 cm]
Found in Zamora Chinchipe province of Ecuador in cloud forests around 2700 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cold growing epiphyte with erect, stout, blackish ramicauls enveloped by 2 to 3, loose, blackish, tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, thickly coriaceous, dark green, speckled and mottled with black beneath, narrowly elliptical, acute, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring on a erect, blackish, .6 to 1.6" [1.5 to 4 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence arising from low on the ramicaul.
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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXII Masdevallia Part 3 Luer 2001 drawing fide; A Treasure of Masdevallia Vol 26 Luer & Dalstroem 2001 watercolor fide; Orchids Masdevallia with its segregates including Dracula Zelenko 2014 photo fide;
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