Masdevallia burianii Luer & Dalström 2000 SUBGENUS Masdevallia SECTION Masdevallia SUBSECTION Masdevallia
Photo courtesy of © Lourens Grobler
TYPE Drawing by Carl Luer
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Common Name Burian's Masdevallia [Co-collector of species American current]
Flower Size 1.2" [3 cm]
Found in Bolivia at elevations around 1500 to 2500 meters as a miniature sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte with erect, black, slender ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 basal loose, tubular sheaths and carrying a single apical, erect, coriaceous, ellitical, acute to subacute, cuneate below into the very elongate, slender, black petiolate base leaf that blooms in the late spring and early summer on a single flowered, 3.6" [9cm] long inflorescence arising from low on the ramicaul with a sheath above the base.
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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XX Luer 2000 drawing fide; A Treasure of Masdevallia Vol 25 Luer & Dalstroem 2000 watercolor/drawing fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum XXII Systematics of Masdevallia Part Three Luer 2001 drawing ok; Orchids Masdevallia with its segregates including Dracula Zelenko 2014 photo fide;
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