Masdevallia rhodehameliana Luer 1993 SUBGENUS Masdevallia SECTION Masdevallia SUBSECTION Oscillantes Luer 1986
Photo by © The Hoosier Orchid Company
Photo by © Marlo and Infojardin Website
TYPE Drawing by Carl Luer
Common Name Rhodehamel's Masdevallia [American Orchid Breeder 20th century]
Flower Size 2" [5 cm]
Found in Peru in wet montane forests at elevations of 1200 to 1950 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cool growing epiphyte [largest with erect, stout, blackish ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 to 3 loose, blackish, tubular sheaths carrying a single, apical, erect, thickly coriaceous, purple suffused, elliptical, obtuse leaf that is cuneate below into the blackish petiole and blooms in the spring on a slender, erect, 1.2" to 1.6" [3 to 4 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence arising from low on the ramicaul with a bract above the base and a tubular, oblique floral bract holding the flower at mid leaf.
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *AOS Bulletin Vol 62 No 11 1993 photo fide; A Treasure of Masdevallia Vol 25 Luer & Dalstroem 2000 watercolor/drawing fide; Masdevallia's in Kleur Vol 1 P M Oversteegen, Eisses & A P Sijm 2001 photo fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum XXIII Systematics of Masdevallia Part 4 Luer 2002 drawing fide; Orchids Masdevallia with its segregates including Dracula Zelenko 2014 photo fide;
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