Masdevallia setipes Schltr. 1929 SUBGENUS Pygmaeia SECTION Aphanes Luer 1986

Photo by © Karl Senghas and Swiss Orchid FOundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria webPage

Common Name The Bristle-Like Foot Masdevallia [refers to the long slender peduncle]

Flower Size .2" [5 mm]

Found in Bolivia at elevations around 1400 to 2000 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cool growing epiphyte with slender, erect, blackish ramicauls enveloped by 2, thin, tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, narrowly elliptical, acute, more or less cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring on a slender, more or less horizontal, 1.8 to 2" [4.5 to 5 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence arisisng from low on the ramicaul, with a bract near the middle and another at the base as well as a tubular floral bract.

Synonyms Luzama setipes (Schltr.) Luer 2006

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXI Masdevallia Part 2 Luer 2000 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 Luzama setipes; Orchids Masdevallia with its segregates including Dracula Zelenko 2014 photo fide;

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