Masdevallia carpishica Luer & Cloes 1999 SUBGENUS Masdevallia SECTION Masdevallia SUBSECTION Masdevallia
Photos by © Patrick & Martine Cloes and their Pleurothallid Webpage
TYPE Drawing by Carl Luer
Common Name The Carpish Mountain Masdevallia [Mountain range in central Peru]
Flower Size 1.2" [3 cm]
Found in Huanaco department of Peru in the Carpish mountains at elevations around 2700 meters as a small sized, cold growing epiphyte with erect, blackish, slender ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 to 3 loose tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptical, acute, narrowly cuneate below into the elongate, blackish petiolate base leaf that blooms in the summer on an erect, slender, 2.4 to 4" [6 to 10 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence arising from the middle of the ramicaul with a tubular floral bract.
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Icones Pleurothallidinarum XVIII. Systematics of Pleurothallis subgen. Pleurothallis sect. Pleurothallis, subsect. Longiracemosae, subsect. Macrophyllae-Racemosae, subsect. Perplexae, subgen. Pseudostelis, subgen. Acuminatia. Addenda to Dracula, Lepanthes, Masdevallia and Pleurothallis. Miscellaneous new species of Dryadella, Lepanthes and Pleurothallis Luer 1999 drawing fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXII Part 3 Luer 2001 drawing fide; Thesarus Masdevalliarum Vol 26 Luer & Treschslin 2001 watercolor fide; Orchids Masdevallia with its segregates including Dracula Zelenko 2014 photo fide;
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