Masdevallia porphyrea Luer 1980 SUBGENUS Amanda Luer 1986
Photo by Alfonso Doucette Copyright © 2009, and His Flicker website
Photo courtesy of © Orchid Species Preservation Foundation
TYPE Drawing by Carl Luer
Common Name or Meaning The Purple Colored Masdevallia [Refers to the flowers]
Flower Size .6" [1.5 cm]
Found in southwestern Ecuador in montane forests at elevations of 1900 to 2650 meters as a miniature sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte with erect, slender, mottled with rose ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 to 3 close, tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, dull pinkish tan mottled with purple, narrowly elliptical, subacute, basally narrowly cuneate into the elongate petiolate base leaf that blooms in the fall on a erect, slender, 5.6" to 8" [14 to 20 cm] long, simultaneously opening 4 to 6 flowered inflorescence arising from low on the ramicaul and carrying a bract near the middle and another near the base and has an inflated, oblique floral bract.
Synonyms Spilotantha porphyrea (Luer) Luer 2006
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Phytologia 47: 57 1980; Masdevallia's in Kleur Vol 1 P M Oversteegen, Eisses & A P Sijm 2001 photo fide; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 3 Dodson 2002 photo fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum XXV Systematics of Masdevallia Part 5 Luer 2003 drawing fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVIII Luer 2006 as Spilotantha porphyrea; Orchidaceae Masdevallia and Affiliates Dodson & Luer 2009 as Spilotantha porphyrea drawing fide; Orchids Masdevallia with its segregates including Dracula Zelenko 2014 photo fide;
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