Masdevallia lata Rchb.f. 1877 SUBGENUS Polyanthae SUBSECTION Successiviflorae Luer 2000
Photo by © Pieter C. Brouwer and his Nature Photo Website
Photo by Eduoard Faria.
Photo by © Daniel Jimenez
Common Name The Wide Masdevallia [Refers to the broad lateral sepals]
Flower Size 2" [5 cm]
Found in southeastern Costa Rica and southwestern Panama [Venezuela? no = M sancta-fidei] at elevations of 100 to 800 meters as a mini-miniature to miniature sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with slender, erect ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 to 3, tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, thickly coriaceous, narrowly obovate, obtuse to rounded apically, narrowly cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the fall and winter on a sublax, successively few flowered, racemose, 6" [to 15 cm] long, round in Cross-section inlflorescence arising from near the base of the ramicaul with a bract below the middle and thin floral bracts.
Synonyms Alaticaulia lata (Rchb. f.) Luer 2006; Masdevallia borucana P.H.Allen 1952
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Lankester's Epidendra Website CR ; Venezuelan Orchids Illustrated Vol 6 Dunsterville & Garay 1976 drawing not = M sancta-fidei; Orchids of Venezuela ; An Illustrated Field Guide Vol 2 Dunsterville & Garay 1979 drawing not = M sancta-fidei; Orchids Travel By Air A Pictoral Safari Mulder, Mulder-Roelfsema and Schuiteman 1990 photo fide; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 1452 Mora & Atwood 1992 drawing fide; 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; Manual de Plantas de Costa Rica Vol 3 Hammel, Grayum, Herrera and Zamora 2003; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVIII Luer 2006 as Alaticaulia lata ; LANKESTERIANA 17(2) Bogarin, Oses & C M Sm. 2017 photo fide; Vanishing Beauty, Native Costa Rican Orchids Vol 2 Lacaena to Pteroglossa Pupulin 2020 photo fide; Vanishing Beauty, Native Costa Rican Orchids Vol 2 Lacaena to Pteroglossa Pupulin 2020 as M borucana photo fide; Orchids Masdevallia with its segregates including Dracula Zelenko 2014 photo fide;
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