Masdevallia scopaea Luer & R.Vásquez 1984 SUBGENUS Pygmaeia SECTION Aphanes Luer 1986
Photo by © Tom Sijm
Drawing by © Stig Dalstrom and The Missouri Botanical Garden Press Website
TYPE Drawing by Carl Luer
EARLY 
Common Name or Meaning The Dwarf Masdevallia
Flower Size .4" [1 cm]
Found in La Paz department of Bolivia at elevations around 1800 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cool growing epiphyte with slender, erect ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptical, subacute, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the early summer on an slender, suberect, .8 " [2 cm] long, abbreviated successively single, few flowered inflorescence arising from low on the ramicaul and has a tubular floral bract.
"Characterized by the successively flowered racemes a little longer than the leaves. The yellowish flwoers veined in purple brown are large for the size of the plant." Luer 1984
Synonyms Luzama scopaea (Luer & R.Vásquez) Luer 2006
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; * Phytologia 55: 199. Luer & Vasquez 1984; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXI Masdevallia Part 2 Luer 2000 drawing fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVIII Luer 2006 as Luzama scopaea; Orchids Masdevallia with its segregates including Dracula Zelenko 2014 photo fide;
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