Masdevallia valenciae Luer & R. Escobar 1986 SUBGENUS Masdevallia SECTION Masdevallia SUBSECTION Caudatae Veitch 1889
Photo by © Andreas Philipp
Photo by © Lourens Grobler
TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer
Common Name Valencias' Masdevallia [Colombian Orchid Enthusiast 1900's]
Flower Size 2" [5 cm]
Found in Norte de Santander department of Colombia in cloud forests at an elevation of 2900 meters as a miniature sized, cold growing epiphyte with blackish, erect, slender ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 to 3 loose tubular sheaths carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptical-obovate, subacute leaf that is cuneate below into the petiole and blooms in the spring on a slender, erect to suberect, 1 2/5" to 1 3/5" [3.5 to 4 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence arising from low on the ramicaul with a bract near the base and a tubular floral bract carrying the flower below the leaf.
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Orquideologia Vol 16 #3 1986 drawing fide; Systematics of Masdevallia Vol 2 Luer 1986; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 2 COS 1991 photo fide; Masdevallia's in Kleur Vol 1 P M Oversteegen, Eisses & A P Sijm 2001 photo fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum XXIII Systematics of Masdevallia Part 4 Luer 2002 drawing fide; Libro Rojo de Plantas De Colombia Vol 6 Primera Parte Saenz 2007 photo fide; Masdevallia in Detail Vol 5 Sijm etal 2010 photo/drawing fide; Orchids Masdevallia with its segregates including Dracula Zelenko 2014 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 88 # 6 2019 photo fide;
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