Masdevallia infracta Lindley 1833 SUBGENUS Polyantha SECTION Alaticaules SUBSECTION Alaticaules [Krzl.] Luer 1986
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Plant and Flowers in situ Minas Gerais Brazil
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Common Name The Crooked Masdevallia [refers to the sepaline tube]
Flower Size to 3" long [to 7.5 cm]
Found in the organ Mountains of Brazil, Peru and Bolivia in montane forests at elevations of 1100 to 2000 meters as a miniature to small sized, cool growing, tufted epiphyte with erect leaves is from with stout, erect ramicauls enveloped by 2 to 3 tubular sheaths carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, narrowly elliptical, acute to subacute leaf with the base narrowly cuneate into the petiole that blooms in the summer with an erect, to 7" [17.5 cm] long, congested, slender, erect, round to triquetrous inflorescence arising from low on the ramicaul, with a basal bract and thin, imbricating, fugacious floral bracts and from 1 to 5 flowers that open in succession, held at or above the leaves.
Synonyms Alaticaulia infracta (Lindl.) Luer 2006; Masdevallia albida Pinel 1868; Masdevallia aristata Barb. Rod. 1877; Masdevallia aurantiaca Lindl. 1836; Masdevallia forgetiana Kraenzl. 1895; Masdevallia infracta var aristata [Barb. Rodr.] Cogn. 1896; Masdevallia infracta var purpurea Rchb.f 1833; Masdevallia longicaudata LeMaire 1868; Masdevallia tridentata Lindl. 1836; Masdevallia triquetra Schweidw. 1839
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Die Orchideen Schlechter 1915; Atlas des Orchidees Cultivees Constantin 1920 drawing 0k; Iconografia de Orchidaceae Do Brasil Hoehne 1949 drawing fide; Iconografia de Orchidaceae Do Brasil Hoehne 1949 as M infracta var purpurea drawing fide; Iconografia de Orchidaceae Do Brasil Hoehne 1949 as M infracta var aristata drawing fide; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; Die Orchideen 3 Auflage Bd 1 Sonderabdruck aus Schlechter Lieferung 7 385 - 448 Brieger, Maatsch and Senghas 1975 photo fide; Orchidaceae Brasilense Band 1 Pabst & Dungs 1975 drawing fide; Orchidaceae Brasilense Band 1 Pabst & Dungs 1975 as M tridentata drawing fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 52 No 3 1983 as M infracta var lutea photo fide; Systematics of Masdevallia Vol 2 Luer 1986; Orchids Travel By Air A Pictoral Safari Mulder, Mulder-Roelfsema and Schuiteman 1990 photo fide; The Manual Of Cultivated Orchid Species Bechtel, Cribb & Launert 1992; Orchids of the High Mountain Atlantic Rainforest in SE Brazil Warren & Miller 1994; Icones Orchidacearum Peruviarum Plate 288 Bennett & Christenson 1995; 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; AOS Bulletin Vol 74 No 3 2005 photo fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum XXV Systematics of Masdevallia Part Five Luer 2003; Orquideas Da Chapada Diamantina Brito & Cribb 2005; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVIII Luer 2006 as Alaticaulia infracta; Orchid Digest Vol 72 No 4 2008 photo fide; Orchid Species of Peru Zelenko Bermudez 2009 photo fide; Las Orquideas del Peru Izerskyy & Bezverhov 2011 photo fide; Orchids Masdevallia with its segregates including Dracula Zelenko 2014 photo fide; Orchids Masdevallia with its segregates including Dracula Zelenko 2014 as M infracta ssp oscitans photo fide;
AOS Bulletin Vol 88 #9 2019 photo fide;
Masdevallia infracta Lindley 1833 var alba
A white form of the previous species.
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; AOS Bulletin Vol 85 #6 2015 photo fide;
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