Masdevallia trechsliniana Königer & J.Meza 1997 SUBGENUS Polyantha SECTION Alaticaules SUBSECTION Alaticaules [Krzl.] Luer 1986
Photo by © Tom Sijm
Photo by © Eric Hunt
TYPE Drawing by © Willibald Königer and Epidendra Orchid Page
Common Name Trechslin's Masdevallia [Swiss Orchid Illustrator]
Flower Size .2" wide[5 mm]
Found in Amazonas department of Peruat elevations around 1600 meters as a small sized, cool growing epiphyte with furrowed ramicauls enveloped by 2 tubular, scarious, close sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous,narrowly lanceolate, gradually narrowing below into the purrowed, shortly petiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring on an erect to suberect, triquetrous, straight, [16 to 21 cm] long, congested, successively single, few flowered inflorescence with folded-tubular, amplexicaul in the inferior half, subinflated and slightly spreading in the superior half, shorter to as longas the pedicel floral bracts.
Said to be a synonym of Masdevallia bryophila Luer 1996 by many but Kew and I have kept it separate
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; * Arcula 7: 202 Königer & J.Meza 1997 Drawing fide; Icones Pleurothallidianrum Vol XIX Luer 2000 as synonym of M bryophila; Masdevallia's in Kleur Vol 1 P M Oversteegen, Eisses & A P Sijm 2001 photo fide; Masdevallia in Detail Vol 5 Sijm etal 2010 photo/drawing fide;
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