Masdevallia scandens Rolfe 1907 SUBGENUS Masdevallia SECTION Masdevallia SUBSECTION Masdevallia
Photo courtesy of © Lourens Grobler
Photo by © Tom Ballinger and his Flickr Orchid Photo Website
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EARLY
Common Name The Climbing Masdevallia
Flower Size .8" [2 cm]
Found in Bolivia in cloud forests at elevations of 3000 to 3200 meters as a miniature sized, cold growing epiphyte or lithophyte with an elongated, climbing rhizome with erect, slender ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 to 3, loose, tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, eret, coriaceous, long petiolate, narrowly obovate, subacute leaf that blooms on a slender, erect to suberect, 4 to 4.6" [10 to 14 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence arising from low on the ramicaul and carrying a bract below the middle and a tubular floral bract.
Synonyms Masdevallia buchtienii Schltr. 1912
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Pleurothallidinarum XXII Systematics of Masdevallia Part 3 Luer 2001 Drawing fide; Orchids Masdevallia with its segregates including Dracula Zelenko 2014 photo fide; LANKESTERIANA 19(2).125 - 193 Ossenbach & Jenny 2019 as M buchtieni drawing fide;
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