Masdevallia rana-aurea Luer 1999 SUBGENUS Masdevallia SECTION Masdevallia SUBSECTION Masdevallia

Photo by Alfonso Doucette

TYPE Drawing

TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer and Epidendra Orchid Page

Drawing

Watercolor by © Carl Luer and Missouri Botanical Garden Press Orchid Page

Common Name The Golden Frog Masdevallia [Refers to the yellow flower]

Flower Size 1.2" [3 cm]

Found in northwestern Peru without collection data as a mini-miniature sized, caespitose presumably epiphytic orchid with erect, slender, blackish ramicauls enveloped by 2 to 3 tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptical, acute, narrowly cuneate below into the blackish petiolate base leaf that blooms in the fall on a slender, arising from low on the ramicaul, suberect, [4 to 5 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence with a tubular, as long as the pedicel floral bract.

"Similar to M os-viperae but the leaves are elliptical, not narrowly ovate and acute. All floral parts of M rana-aurea are pure orange, the same color as seen in M hirtzii. The sepals are connate into a slightly compressed, narrowly cylindrical tube with the free portions broadly expanded, but totally glabrous as in M hirtzii. The petals, lip and column are similar to M os-viperae." Luer 1999

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; * Icones Pleurothallidinarum XVIII. Systematics of Pleurothallis subgen. Pleurothallis sect. Pleurothallis, subsect. Longiracemosae, subsect. Macrophyllae-Racemosae, subsect. Perplexae, subgen. Pseudostelis, subgen. Acuminatia. Addenda to Dracula, Lepanthes, Masdevallia and Pleurothallis. Miscellaneous new species of Dryadella, Lepanthes and Pleurothallis Luer 1999 drawing fide; A Treasure of Masdevallia Vol 27 Luer & Dalstroem 2004 watercolor fide; Orchids Masdevallia with its segregates including Dracula Zelenko 2014 photo fide;

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