Masdevallia zumbuehlerae Luer 2002 SUBGENUS Polyantha SECTION Polyanthae SUBSECTION Successiviflorae Luer 2000
Photos by © Dogtooth 77 and his Flickr Orchid Photo Website
TYPE Drawing by Carl Luer
Common Name Zumbueler's Masdevallia [Paula Keeler nee Zumbueler American Orchid enthusiast and Discoverer of species current]
Flower Size 1.2" [3 cm]
Found in Morona-Santiago province of Ecuador in forests at elevations around 1273 meters as a miniature sized, cool growing epiphyte with stout, erect, ramicauls enveloped by a loose, tubular sheaths and 1 to 2 others at the base and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptical, obtuse, narrowing below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the fall on a terete, arising from low on the ramicaul, with a close basal bract, erect, 2.4" [6 cm] long, lax successively few flowered inflorescence with shorter to as long as the pedicel floral bracts.
" Characterized by the relatively large, fleshy, shortly petiolate leaves, flowers produces successively and withthe lip divided by marginal folds. The flowers has a yellow dorsal sepal and connate, dark purple lateral sepals is most similar to M bicolor but it has simultaneous flowers in a 2 to 3 flowered raceme on a triquetrous peduncle." Luer 2002
Synonyms Alaticaulia zumbuehlerae (Luer) Luer 2007
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; * Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXIII Masdevallia Part 4 Luer 2002 drawing fide; A Treasure of Masdevallia Vol 28 Luer & Dalstroem 2006 watercolor fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVIII Luer 2006 as Alaticaulia zumbuehlerae; Icones Pleurothallidianrum Vol XXIX A Third Century of Stelis of Ecuador Systematics of Apoda-Prorepentia Luer 2007 as Alatacaulia zumbuehlerae; Orchids Masdevallia with its segregates including Dracula Zelenko 2014 photo fide;
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