Masdevallia mooreana Rchb.f. 1884 SUBGENUS Masdevallia SECTION Coriaceae SUBSECTION Coriaceae Rchb.f 1874

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Full shade Cold Spring

Common Name Moore's Masdevallia [Scotish Orchid Collector 1800's]

Flower Size 2" [5 cm]

Found in Santander and Norte de Santander departments of Colombia and Venezuela in cloud forests at elevations near 2500 to 2800 meters as a miniature sized, cold growing epiphyte or terrestrial with stout, erect ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 to 3, thin, loose, tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, thickly coriaceous, elliptical, obtuse, cuneate below into the channeled petiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring on a stout, erect to suberect, 1.6 to 10.4" [4 to 11 cm] long, single flowered, purple speckled inflorescence arising from low on the ramicaul with a bract near the base and a tubular floral bract

Synonyms Byrsella mooreana (Rchb.f.) Luer 2006; Masdevallia atroviolacea Kraenzl. 1922; Masdevallia sororcula Rchb.f. 1887

ReferencesW3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Die Orchideen Schlechter 1915; Atlas des Orchidees Cultivees Constantin 1920 drawing good; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; Venezuelan Orchids Vol 5 Dunsterville & Garay 1966; Orchids of Venezuela ; An Illustrated Field Guide Vol 2 Dunsterville & Garay 1979 drawing ok; Orquideologia Vol 16 No1 1983; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 6 COS 1998 photo fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum XXI Masdevallia Part 2 Luer 2000 drawing fide; Masdevallia's in Kleur Vol 1 P M Oversteegen, Eisses & A P Sijm 2001 photo fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVIII Luer 2006 as Byrsella mooreana; Libro Rojo de Plantas De Colombia Vol 6 Primera Parte Saenz 2007; Orchids Masdevallia with its segregates including Dracula Zelenko 2014 photo good;

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