Masdevallia ingridiana Luer & J.Portilla 2000 SUBGENUS Polyantha SECTION Alaticaules SUBSECTION Alaticaules [Krzl.] Luer 1986
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Photo by Joseph Dougerty Copyright ©
TYPE Drawing by Carl Luer
Common Name Ingrid's Masdevallia [Senora Portilla Orchid Nurserywoman Current]
Flower Size 1.2" [3 cm]
Found in southern Ecuador at elevations around 1000 meters as a miniature to small sized, warm growing epiphyte with slender, erect, ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 to 3 tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, narrowly obovate, obtuse, cuneate basally into the petiolate base leaf that blooms on a erect, slender, triquetrous, racemose, singly successively few flowered 6 to 7" [15 to 17.5 cm] long inflorescence arising from low on the ramicaul with tubular, imbricating floral bracts.
Synonyms Alaticaulia ingridiana (Luer & J.Portilla) Luer 2006
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXI Masdevallia Part 2 Luer 2000 drawing fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVIII Luer 2006 as Alaticaulia ingridiana; Orchidaceae Masdevallia and Affiliates Dodson & Luer 2009 as Alaticaulia ingridiana drawing fide; Orchid Digest Vol 76 #3 2012 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 85 #4 2016 photo fide; Orchids Masdevallia with its segregates including Dracula Zelenko 2014 photo fide;
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