Masdevallia hartman-filii Luer, Hirtz & V.N.M.Rao 2005 SUBGENUS Masdevallia SECTION Masdevallia SUBSECTION Caudatae Veitch 1889
Photo by © Ron Parsons
TYPE Drawing by Carl Luer
Common Name The Son Of Hartman Masdevallia [Hartman Mendoza Jr Ecuadorian and discoverer of species current]
Flower Size 1" [ 2.5 cm]
Found in Ecuador without specific locality as a mini-miniature sized, epiphyte with stout, erect, ramicauls enveloped by 2 to 3, loose, tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptical, obtuse, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the fall on an erect, slender, 1.4" [3.5 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence arising from low on the ramicaul with a bract in the lower quarter an inflated and a tubular floral bract
CAUTION The colors do not match those in Luer's description otherwise it is correct, so use with caution
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVII Luer 2005 drawing fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 86 #9 2017 photo fide; Orchids Masdevallia with its segregates including Dracula Zelenko 2014 photo fide;
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