Masdevallia anfracta Königer & J.J. Portilla 1995 SUBGENUS Polyantha SECTION Alaticaules SUBSECTION Alaticaules [Krzl.] Luer 1986
Photos courtesy of Dale and Deni Borders
Drawing by Carl Luer
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Common Name The Bent Masdevallia
Flower Size 3/4" [2 cm]
Found in Ecuador and Peru at elevations of 800 to 2200 meters as a mini-miniature sized, warm to cold growing epiphyte with slender erect ramicauls enveloped by 2 to 3 tubular sheaths carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, narrowly elliptic-oblong, subacute to acute leaf that is narrowly cuneate below into the indistinct petiolate base and blooms in the summer on a congested, successively single flowered, racmose, 2.4" to 3.2" [6 to 8 cm] long, slender, erect, triquetrous inflorescence arising from the base of the ramicaul and holding the flower at leaf height.
SynonymsAlaticaulia anfracta (Königer & J.Portilla) Luer 2006
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Pleurothallidinarum XIX Systematics of Masdevallia Part 1 Luer 2000 drawing fide; Madevallia's in Kleur Vol 1 P M Oversteegen, Eisses & A P Sijm 2001 photo fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVIII Luer 2006 as Alaticaulia anfracta; Orchid Species of Peru Zelenko Bermudez 2009 photo fide; Orchidaceae Masdevallia and Affiliates Dodson & Luer 2009 as Alaticaulia anfracta drawing fide;
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