Masdevallia brachyantha Schltr. 1929
SUBGENUS Polyanthae SUBSECTION Successiviflorae Luer 2000
Photo by © Gary Meyer
Drawing by © Carl Luer and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
Common Name The Short Flowered Masdevallia [refers to the short inflorescence]
Flower Size .4" [1 cm]
Found in Bolivia at elevations of 1200 to 1400 meters as a mini-miniature sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with slender, erect ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 to 3, thin, close, tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, narrolwy obovate, subacute, gradually narrowing below into the stout, subpetiolate base leaf that blooms on a slender, erect, .8 to 1.2" [2 to 3 cm] long peduncle, successively single, 2 flowered inflorescence arising from low on the ramicaul, witha bract above the base with a tubular floral bract, holding the single flower at mid-leaf height.
Synonyms Alaticaulia brachyantha (Schltr.) Luer 2006
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Pleurothallidinarum XXI Systematics of Masdevallia Part 2 Luer 2000 drawing fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum XXVIII Luer 2006 as Alaticaulia brachyantha; Orchids Masdevallia with its segregates including Dracula Zelenko 2014 photo fide;
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