Masdevallia robusta Luer 1998 SUBGENUS Masdevallia SECTION Durae [Luer] Luer 2000
Photo by © Tom Sijm
TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
Common Name or Meaning The Robust Masdevallia
Flower Size 2" [5 cm]
Found in Ecuador without collection data as a small sized, cool to cold growing, caespitose epiphyte with stout, erect ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 to 3 tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, narrowly elliptical, acute, narrowly cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the summer on an stout, arising from near the base of the ramicaul, with a bract on the lower quarter and another above the base, ascending, 6 to 8.8" [15 to 22 cm] long, loose, successively single, few flowered inflorescence with an inflated, shorter to as long as the ovary floral bract.
"Closely allied to M ayabacana but differs from all others in the subsection by the acute, distinctly petiolate base leaves. From M ayabacana it differs in the non-gibbous sepaline tube, oblong petals and a lip witha keel beneath the paex and with well developed basal resesses as seen in M dura." Luer 1998
Synonyms Regalia robusta (Luer) Luer 2006
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; * Icones Pleurothallidinarum XVII Systematics of subgen. Pleurothallis sect. Abortivae sect. Truncatae sect. Pleurothallis subsect. Acroniae subsect. Pleurothallis subgen. Dracontia subgen. Unciferia Addenda to Dracula, Lepanthes, Masdevallia, Porroglossum, and Scaphosepalum Luer 1998 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 Regalia robusta ; Orchids Masdevallia with its segregates including Dracula Zelenko 2014 photo fide;
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