Masdevallia nitens Luer 1978 SUBGENUS Masdevallia SECTION Masdevallia SUBSECTION Masdevallia
Photo by © Guido Deburghgraeve and his Flickr Orchid Photo Website
Photo by © Klaus Eisses
TYPE Drawing by Carl Luer
Common Name The Shining Masdevallia [refers to the bright flowers]
Flower Size .8" [2 cm]
Found in Bolivia in cloud forests at elevations around 2500 to 2700 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cold growing epiphyte with slender, erect ramicauls enveloped by 2 to 3, loose, tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, narrowly elliptical, subacute to obtuse, narrowly cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring and summer on a slender, erect, 2 to 3.2" [5 to 8 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence arising from near the base of the ramicaul with a bract near the base.
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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXII Masdevallia Part 3 Luer 2001 drawing fide; Masdevallia's in Kleur Vol 1 P M Oversteegen, Eisses & A P Sijm 2001 photo fide; Orchids Masdevallia with its segregates including Dracula Zelenko 2014 photo fide;
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