Masdevallia × polita Luer & Sijm 2000 SUBGENUS Masdevallia SECTION Reichenbachianae Woolw. 1896
Photos by Tom Sijm
TYPE Drawing by Carl Luer
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Common Name or Meaning The Masdevallia
Flower Size .8" [2 cm]
Found in Costa Rica? without collection data as a miniature sized, possible natural hybrid betwen unknown parents with slender, erect ramicauls enveloped by 2 to 3 loose, tubular sheaths and carrying an erect, cioriceous, narrowly elliptical, subacuteapically, gradually narrowing below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the later summer on a suberect, slender, peduncle to 2.8" [7 cm] with a bract above the base, arising from low on the ramicaul, successively few, single flowered inflorescence with much shorter than the ovary floral bracts..
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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXI Masdevallia Part 2 Luer 2000 drawing fide; Masdevallia's in Kleur Vol 1 P M Oversteegen, Eisses & A P Sijm 2001 photo fide; Orchids Masdevallia with its segregates including Dracula Zelenko 2014 photo fide;
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