Masdevallia os-viperae Luer & Andreetta 1989 SUBGENUS Masdevallia SECTION Masdevallia SUBSECTION Masdevallia
Photo by © Duane McDowell
Drawing by © Carl Luer and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
Common Name The Snake's Mouth Masdevallia [A fanciful allusion to the gaping flower]
Flower Size .8" [2 cm]
Found in Morona-Santiago province of Ecuador at elevations around 1600 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cool growing epiphyte with blackish, slender, erect ramicauls enveloped by 2 to 3 tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptical-ovate, acute, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the summer on a slender, suberect, 1.2 to 2" [3 to 5 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence with a bract above the base, arising from low on the ramicaul and has a tubular floral bract.
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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Pleurothallidinarum XXIII Systematics of Masdevallia Part 3 Luer 2001 drawing fide; Orchids Masdevallia with its segregates including Dracula Zelenko 2014 photo fide;
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