Masdevallia sotoana H.Medina & Pupulin 2010 SUBGENUS Masdevallia SECTION Masdevallia SUBSECTION Saltatrices [Rchb.f] Luer 1986
Photos by © H Medina and Ecuagenera webPage
Common Name Soto's Masdevallia [Mexican Botanist mid 1900's to early 2000's]
Flower Size .4" [1 cm]
Found in southeastern Ecuador at elevations around 1800 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cool growing epiphyte with erect ramicauls enveloped by 2 to 3, loose, scarious, tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptical, acute, tridenticulate, conduplicate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the winter on a slender, terete, lateral, 1.4" [3.5 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence arisisng from low on the ramicaul, with a tubular-lanceolate floral bract.
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References <W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Lankesteriana 9(3): 455. 2010 Medina & Pupulin drawing fide
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