Masdevallia rigens Luer 1979 SUBGENUS Masdevallia SECTION Coriaceae SUBSECTION Coriaceae Rchb.f 1874
Photo by © Eric Hunt
Photo by © Botanical Garden in Liberec
TYPE Drawing by Carl Luer
Common Name refers to the stiff vegatable and flower parts
Flower Size 3/4" [2 cm]
Found only in Cajamarca department of Peru in wet montane forests at elevations of 300 to 600 meters as a small sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with an erect, stout ramicaul enveloped basally by 2 to 3 close, tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, suberect, thickly coriaceous, rigid, narrowly elliptic-linear, dull green, subpetiolate to sessile leaf that has a, from low on the ramicaul, a stout, suberect, 4" [10 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence with a single tubular floral bract occuring in the late summer and fall.
Synonyms Byrsella rigens (Luer) Luer 2006; Masdevallia stercorea Königer 1980
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Systematics of Masdevallia Vol 2 Luer 1986; Icones Orchidacearum Peruviarum Plate 300 Bennett & Christenson 1995 drawing fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum XXI Systematics of Masdevallia Part 2 Luer 2000 drawing fide; Masdevallia's in Kleur Vol 1 P M Oversteegen, Eisses & A P Sijm 2001 photo fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVIII Luer 2006 as Byrsella rigens; Orchids Masdevallia with its segregates including Dracula Zelenko 2014 photo fide;
AOS Bulletin Vol 86 #5 2017 photo fide;
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