Masdevallia repanda Luer & Hirtz 2002 SUBGENUS Masdevallia SECTION Masdevallia SUBSECTION Masdevallia
Photo by Alfonso Doucette Copyright © 2009, and His Flicker website
TYPE Drawing by Carl Luer
Common Name The Bent-Backward Masdevallia [refers to the lateral sepals]
Flower Size .8" [2 cm]
Found in Zamora-Chinchipe province of Ecuador and Peru at elevations around 1700 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cool growing epiphyte with slender, erect, blackish ramicauls enveloped by 2 to 3, tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptical, acute, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring on an erect, slender, 2.4" [6 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence arising from the base of the ramicaul with a bract above the base and has a tubular floral bract.
Related to Masdevallia os-viperae , Masdevallia rana-aurea and Masdevallia trautmanniana
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXIII Masdevallia Pert 4 Luer 2002 drawing fide; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 3 Dodson 2002 photo fide; Orchid Species of Peru Zelenko Bermudez 2009 photo fide; Orchidaceae Masdevallia and Affiliates Dodson & Luer 2009 drawing fide; Orchids Masdevallia with its segregates including Dracula Zelenko 2014 photo fide;
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