Masdevallia jarae Luer 1996 SUBGENUS Polyanthae SUBSECTION Successiviflorae Luer 2000
Photo courtesy of © Lourens Grobler
Photos by Alfonso Doucette Copyright © 2009, and His Flicker website
TYPE Drawing by Carl Luer
Common Name Jara's Masdevallia [for Enrique Jara Pinan, Ecuadorian original collector of species - current]
Flower Size 12" [3 cm]
Found in central Peru at elevations around 600 to 1800 meters as a mini-miniature sized, caespitose, warm to cool growing epiphyte with erect, slender ramicauls enveloped by 2 to 3 tubular sheaths carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptical, obtuse leaf that is cuneate below into the petiole that blooms in the spring on a slender, suberect to reclining, terete, very short, successively, single flowered inflorescence arising from low on the ramicaul with a basal bract and a tubular floral bract that holds the large flower under the leaf.
Synonyms Alaticaulia jarae (Luer) Luer 2006
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Pleurothallidinarum XIX Systematics of Masdevallia Part 1 Luer 2000 drawing fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVIII Luer 2006 as Alaticaulia jarae; Orchid Species of Peru Zelenko Bermudez 2009 photo fide; Orchids Masdevallia with its segregates including Dracula Zelenko 2014 photo fide;
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