Masdevallia x mystica Luer 1989 SUBGENUS Masdevallia SECTION Masdevallia SUBSECTION Saltatrices [Rchb.f] Luer 1986
Photo by © Jay Pfahl
Photo courtesy of Richard Korber
TYPE Drawing by Carl Luer
Common Name The Mystic Masdevallia [refers to it's mysterious origin]
Flower Size .84" [2.1 cm]
Found in Colombia as a naturally occuring hybrid between M filaria and another unknown parent, as a miniature sized epiphyte with erect, slender ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 to 3 tubular sheaths carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, narrowly elliptical-obovate, acute leaf that is narrowly cuneate below into the petiole that blooms in the late fall on a slender, erect, 2 3/5" [6.5 cm] long inflorescence with a bract above the base and a tubular floral bract carrying a single flower.
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchid Digest Vol 61 #1 1997 photo fide; A Treasure of Masdevallia Vol 24 Luer & Dalstroem 1999 watercolor/drawing fide; Masdevallia's in Kleur Vol 1 P M Oversteegen, Eisses & A P Sijm 2001 photo fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum XXIII Systematics of Masdevallia Part 4 Luer 2002 drawing ok; Orchids Masdevallia with its segregates including Dracula Zelenko 2014 photo fide;
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