Masdevallia semiteres Luer & R.Escobar 1979 SUBGENUS Masdevallia SECTION Coriaceae SUBSECTION Coriaceae Rchb.f 1874
Photo courtesy of © Lourens Grobler
Photo by © Karl Senghas and Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria
Plant and Flowers in situ Peru
Photo by Copyright © Sacha and the Flora of The Andes Website
TYPE Drawing by Carl Luer
Common Name The Semi-Terete Masdevallia [refers to the leaves]
Flower Size .8" [2 cm]
Found in Peru in xerophytic conditions in bare rocky terrain in full sun at elevations of 2500 to 3800 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cold growing terrestrial or lithophyte with erect, stout, terete ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 to 3 short, imbricating, tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, semiterete, grey-green, fleshy, sulcate, narrowly linear elliptical obovate, acute, greadually narrowing into the base leaf that blooms in the spring and summer on a stout, suberect, .4 to .6" [1 to 1.5 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence arising from low on the ramicaul with a bract above the base.
Synonyms Byrsella semiteres (Luer & R.Escobar) Luer 2006
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Pleurothallidinarum XXI Masdevallia Part 2 Luer 2001 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 semiteres; Orchid Species of Peru Zelenko Bermudez 2009 photo fide; Masdevallia in Detail Vol 5 Sijm etal 2010 photo/drawing fide; Orchids Masdevallia with its segregates including Dracula Zelenko 2014 photo fide;
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