Masdevallia trigonopetala Kraenzl. 1925 SUBGENUS Masdevallia SECTION Masdevallia SUBSECTION Masdevallia
Photos by Ecuagenera and their Ecuador Orchid Website
Common Name or Meaning The Triangular Petaled Masdevallia
Flower Size 5/8" [1.5 cm]
Found in Putumayo department of Colombia and Ecuador in cloud forests at elevations around 1000 to 1700 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cool growing epiphyte with slender, blackish, erect ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 to 3 tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, narrowly obovate, obtuse, gradually narrowing below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the winter and spring, on an erect, slender, 1 to 1.2" [2.5 to 3 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence arising from low on the ramicaul, with a bract near the base.
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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXII Masdevallia Part 3 Luer 2001 drawing fide; Masdevallia's in Kleur Vol 1 P M Oversteegen, Eisses & A P Sijm 2001 photo fide; Libro Rojo de Plantas De Colombia Vol 6 Primera Parte Saenz 2007; Orchid Digest Vol 72 No 4 2008 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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