Masdevallia yungasensis T.Hashim SUBGENUS Masdevallia SECTION Masdevallia SUBSECTION Masdevallia
Photo by © Eric Hunt
Common Name The Yungas Masdevallia [Bolivian Mountain range]
Flower Size 1 1/5" [3 cm]
Found in Bolivia in cloud forests or wet montane forests at elevations of 2150 to 3000 meters as a mini-miniature to miniature sized, cold growing epiphyte or terrestrial with erect, slender ramicauls enveloped basallly by 2 to 3 loose, tubular sheaths carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, long-petiolate, elliptical, subacute to obtuse leaf that is cuneate below into the petiole and blooms in the winter on an erect, slender, 1 3/5" to 2 3/5" [4 to 6.5 cm] long inflorescence arising from low on the ramicaul with a bract above the base and a tubular floral bract that has the single, showy flower held at or just below the leaves.
Synonyms *Masdevallia calocodon Luer & R. Escobar 1981; Masdevallia yungasensis subsp. calocodon (Luer & R.Vásquez) Luer 1988
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Systematics of Masdevallia Vol 2 Luer 1986; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum plate 541 Dodson 1982 as Masdevallia calocodon drawing fide; Systematics of Masdevallia Vol 2 Luer 1986 as Masdevalia calocodon; Orchids Travel By Air A Pictoral Safari Mulder, Mulder-Roelfsema and Schuiteman 1990 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 70 No 6 2001 drawing fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum XXII Systematics of Masdevallia Part 3 Luer 2001 drawing fide; Masdevallia's in Kleur Vol 1 P M Oversteegen, Eisses & A P Sijm 2001 photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 72 No 4 2008 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 84 #4 2015 photo fide; Orchids Masdevallia with its segregates including Dracula Zelenko 2014 photo fide; Orchids Masdevallia with its segregates including Dracula Zelenko 2014 as M yungasensis ssp calacodon photo fide;
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Masdevallia yungasensis T.Hashim ssp. calocodon (Luer & R. Vásquez) Luer 1978
Photo by Lourens Grobler
This variety has a more bell shaped flower with a red pubescence.
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchid Australia Vol 11 No 3 1999 photo; AOS Bulletin Vol 80 #3 2011 photo fide;
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