Masdevallia titan Luer 1996 SUBGENUS Masdevallia SECTION Durae [Luer] Luer 2000
Photo by Ron Parsons ©
Photo by Erica Moron de Abad © and Her Biorquidtropic Peru Lab Web Page
TYPE Drawing by Carl Luer
LATER
EARLY
Common Name The Titan Masdevallia {refers to the flowers size]
Flower Size 2" wide x 12" [5 x 30 cm]
Found in Peru in cloud forests at elevations of 1000 to 1400 meters as a small sized, cool growing epiphyte with stout, erect ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 to 3 tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, thickly coriaceous, narrowly obovate, obtuse, gradually narrows below into the indistinct petiolate base leaf that blooms in the later spring and early summer on a terete, purplish, horizontal to ascending, 12 to 16" [30 to 40 cm] long, successively few flowered inflorescence arising from low on the the ramicaul, with 2 to 3 bracts below the middle and a tubular floral bract
Synonyms Regalia titan (Luer) Luer 2006
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Pleurothallidinarum XXI Systematics of Masdevellia 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 Regalia titan; Orchids Masdevallia with its segregates including Dracula Zelenko 2014 photo fide;
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