SUBGENUS Pygmaeia Luer 2000
SUBGENUS TYPE
!Masdevallia pygmaea Kraenzl.1925
"Characterized by small caespitose habit, the flowers are produced singly or in succession and arise laterally from the ramicaul, the ovaries are variable, from smooth to costate or ribbed, verrucose, crested to spiculate, with the processes often extending onto the sepals. The apicesof the sepals are with or without tails. The petals are callous with or without a protuding process, the lip is oblong with variations of a pair of longitudinal calli." Luer 2000
The SUBGENUS is divided into 3 SECTIONS
SUBGENUS Pygmaeia SECTION Amaluzae Luer 2000
SUBGENUS Pygmaeia SECTION Aphanes Luer 2000
SUBGENUS Pygmaeia SECTION Pymaeae Luer 2000
SUBGENUS Pygmaeia SECTION Amaluzae Luer 2000
The SECTION is Divided into 2 SUBSECTIONS
SUBGENUS Pygmaeia SECTION Amaluzae SUBSECTION Amaluzae Luer 1986
"Characterized by the small to very small, caespitose habit with a successively flowered raceme bourne by a slender, ascending, horizontal to descending, terete peduncle. The ovaries are smooth with low ribs that are sometimes undulate. The sepals are contracted into slender tails. The petals are callous mostly without a protruding process. The lips are more or less oblong with variations of a pair of longitudinal calli." Luer 2000
SECTION and SUBSECTION TYPE
!Masdevallia amaluzae Luer & Malo 1978
The Species:
THE SECOND
SUBGENUS Pygmaeia SECTION Amaluziae SUBSECTION Zahlbrucknerzae Luer 2000
"Characterized by the a small to medium szied, caespitose habit with a successively flowered raceme bourne by an ascending, horizontal to descending terete peduncle. The ovaries are smooth or slightly costate. The sepals are contracted into slender tails. The petals are callous with a distinct, retrorse process at the base. The lips are more of less oblong with variations of a pair of longitudinal callii." Luer
SUBSECTION TYPE
Masdevallia zahlbruckneri Kraenzl. 1921
SUBGENUS Pygmaeia SECTION Aphanes Luer 2000
"Characterized by the small to very small, caespitose habit with successively flowered inflorescnece borne by a slender, ascending, horizontal to descending, terete peduncle. The ovaries are costate [ribbed] crested or verrucose. The apices of the lateral sepals are acute to obtuse without contracting into a tail, but in a few species thae apices are thickened into short tails. The petals are callous on the labeler margin. The lips are more of less oblong with the disc featureless or sulcate between the calli." Luer
SECTION TYPE
Masdevallia aphanes Königer 1994 Ecuador, Peru
SUBGENUS Pygmaeia SECTION Pygmaeae Luer 2000
"Characterized by the small to very small caespitose habit and an inflorescence bourne by a slender, terete peduncle. The flower is often followed by a second. The ovaries are pappilose or spiculate. The sepals are caudate. Thepetals are thickened on the labellar margin with an angle at the abse. The lips are more of less oblong with a pair of longitudinal calli." Luer
SECTION TYPE
Masdevallia pygmaea Kraenzl. 1925 Costa Rica, Colombia and Ecuador
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