Masdevallia pleurothalloides Luer 1977 SUBGENUS Fissae Luer 2002
Photo by © Weil Dreissen and his Flickr Orchid Photo Website
Photo by © Diego Bogarin and Epidendra Orchid Website
TYPE Drawing by Carl Luer
Common Name The Pleurothallis-Like Masdevallia
Flower Size .4" [1 cm]
Found in Panama in cloud forests at elevations of 900 to 1000 meters as a mini-miniature sized, warm growing epiphyte with slender, erect ramicauls enveloped by 2 thin, tubular sheath and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, narrowly obovate, subacute, gradually narrowing below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the fall on a slender, erect, 1.2" [3 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence arising from low on the ramicaul with a bract near the base and with a tubular floral bract.
Synonyms Fissia pleurothalloides (Luer) Luer 2006
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; A Treasure of Masdevallia Vol 27 Luer & Dalstroem 2004 watercolor fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXV Masdevallia Part 5 Luer 2003 drawing fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVIII Luer 2006 as Fissia pleurothalloides; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXX Luer 2009 drawing fide; Masdevallia's in Kleur Vol 1 P M Oversteegen, Eisses & A P Sijm 2001 photo fide; Masdevallia in Detail Vol 5 Sijm etal 2010 photo/drawing fide; Orchids Masdevallia with its segregates including Dracula Zelenko 2014 photo fide;
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