Masdevallia segurae Luer & R.Escobar 1978 SUBGENUS Meleagris Luer 1986
Photo by © Jorge Mario Munera
Original Drawing by © Padre Pedro Ortiz Conserved at the Herbario de la Universidad Javeriana, Bogota Colombia
TYPE Drawing by Carl Luer
Common Name Segura's Masdevallia [Colombian Orchid Enthusiast 1900's]
Flower Size .8" [2 cm]
Found in Antioquia department of Colombia in cloud forests at elevations around 2000 to 2200 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cold growing epiphyte with erect, slender ramicauls enveloped by 2 to 3, short tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, thinly coriaceous, narrowly elliptical-obovate, subacute, gradually narrowing below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring and fall on a slender, erect, 2.8" to 3.6" [7 to 9 cm] long, congested, successively few flowered, racemose inflorescence arising from low on the ramicaul with a bract near the base and has a thin tubular floral bract.
Synonyms Rodrigoa segurae (Luer & R.Escobar) Braas 1979
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Orquideologia Vol 13 No 1 1978 photo/drawing/herbarium sheet fide; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 2 COS 1991 photo fide; Masdevallia's in Kleur Vol 1 P M Oversteegen, Eisses & A P Sijm 2001 photo fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXV Luer 2003 drawing fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVIII Luer 2006 as Rodrigoa segurae ; Libro Rojo de Plantas De Colombia Vol 6 Primera Parte Saenz 2007; Orchids Masdevallia with its segregates including Dracula Zelenko 2014 photo fide;
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