Masdevallia gastrodes Luer & Sijm 2006 SUBGENUS Masdevallia SECTION Masdevallia SUBSECTION Masdevallia
Photo by © Tom Sijm
Drawing by © Carl Luer and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
EARLIER 
Common Name The Pot Bellied Masdevallia
Flower Size .4" [1 cm]
Found in Bolivar province of Ecuador without collection data as a mini-miniature sized epiphyte with erect, stout ramicuals enveloped by 1 to 2, loose, tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptical, obtuse, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the earlier fall on a slender, erect, 2" [5 cm] long, single flowered inflorecence with a bract below the middle, arising from low on the ramicaul and has a tubular floral bract.
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVIII Luer 2006 drawing fide; Orchids Masdevallia with its segregates including Dracula Zelenko 2014 photo fide;
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