Masdevallia aptera Luer & L.O'Shaughn. 2004 SUBGENUS Masdevallia SECTION Masdevallia SUBSECTION Caudatae Veitch 1889
Photo by © Lourens Grobler
TYPE Drawing by Carl Luer and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
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Common Name or Meaning The Wingless Masdevallia [refers to the wingless lip and petals]
Flower Size .8" [2 cm]
Found in Zamora-Chinchipe province of Ecuador at elevations around 2000 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte with erect slender ramicauls enveloped by 2, thin, tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptical, obtuse, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the late spring on a slender, more or less erect, 2" [5 cm] long including the 1" [2.5 cm] long peduncle, single flowered inflorescence with a bract at the base arising from low on the ramicaul and has a thin tubular floral bract.
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Icones Pleurothallidianrum Vol XXVI Luer 2004 drawing fide; Orchids Masdevallia with its segregates including Dracula Zelenko 2014 photo fide;
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