Masdevallia bennettii Luer 1991 SUBGENUS Polyantha SECTION Alaticaules SUBSECTION Alaticaules [Krzl.] Luer 1986
Photo by © Luc Pegram Cape Town South Africa
Photo by Erica Moron de Abad © and Her Biorquidtropic Peru Lab Web Page
Photos by Alfonso Doucette Copyright © 2009, and His Flicker website
TYPE Drawing by Carl Luer
Common Name Bennett's Masdevallia [Peruvian Orchid Enthusiast and Discoverer of species Current]
Flower Size 1 1/4" [3 cm]
Found in central Peru at elevations around 780 meters as a warm growing, mini-miniature sized epiphyte with slender, erect, ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 to 3 loose, tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apcial, erect, thinly coriaceous, elliptical, subacute to obtuse, gradually narrowing below into an elongate, cuneate, channelled, petiolate leaf that blooms in the winter on a congested, successively flowered, racemose, slender, triquetrous inflorescence arising from the base of the ramicaul and subtended by a thin bract and carrying tubular, imbricating floral bracts.
Synonyms Alaticaulia bennettii (Luer) Luer 2006
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Orchidacearum Peruviarum Plate 084 Bennett & Christenson 1993 drawing ok; Icones Pleurothallidinarum XIX Systematics of Masdevallia Part 1 Luer 2000 drawing fide; Masdevallia's in Kleur Vol 1 P M Oversteegen, Eisses & A P Sijm 2001 photo fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum XXIII Systematics of Masdevellia Part 4 Luer 2002 index; Icones Pleurothallidinarum XXVIII Luer 2006 as Alaticaulia bennettii; A Treasure of Masdevallia Vol 27 Luer & Dalstroem 2004 watercolor fide; Orchid Species of Peru Zelenko Bermudez 2009 photo fide; Orchids Masdevallia with its segregates including Dracula Zelenko 2014 photo fide;
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