Masdevallia tricycla Luer 2005 SUBGENUS Masdevallia SECTION Masdevallia SUBSECTION Oscillantes Luer 1986
Photo by © Lourens Grobler
TYPE Drawing by Carl Luer
Common Name The Three Wheeled Masdevallia [refers to the 3 very equally rounded sepals]
Flower Size 1.6" [4 cm]
Found in Ecuador and Peru at elevations around 2000 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte with slender, erect, blackish ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 to 3 tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptical, obtuse, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring on a slender, subhorizontal to ascending, 1.6" [4 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence arising from low on the ramicaul with a bract at the base and a floral bract.
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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Pleurothallidianrum Vol XXIII Systematic of Madevallia Part 4 Luer 2002 Nom inval. Drawing fide; Native Orchids of Ecuador Vol 3 Dodson 2002 photo fide; * Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVII Dryadella and Acronia section Macrophyllae-Fasiculatae Luer 2005 in Corrigenda; Orchid Species of Peru Zelenko Bermudez 2009 photo fide; Orchidaceae Masdevallia and Affiliates Dodson & Luer 2009 drawing ok; Orchids Masdevallia with its segregates including Dracula Zelenko 2014 photo fide;
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