Masdevallia karineae Nauray ex Luer 2000 SUBGENUS Masdevallia SECTION Masdevallia SUBSECTION Masdevallia
Photo by © Ron Parsons
Photo by © Lincolnshire Orchid Group Website
TYPE Drawing by Carl Luer
Common Name Karine's Masdevallia [Daughter of Peruvian Orchid Enthusiast current]
Flower Size .8" [2 cm]
Found in the department of Cuzco Peru in cold wet cloud forests at elevations around 2750 meters as a miniature sized, cold growing epiphyte with a slender, erect ramicaul enveloped by a loose tubular sheath and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, narrowly elliptic, subacute, narrowly cuneate below into theelongate petiolate base leaf that blooms in the winter on an erect, 2.2" [5.5 cm] long, single flowered infloresccence arising from low on the ramicaul with a bract above the base
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XX Luer 2000 drawing fide; A Treasure of Masdevallia Vol 25 Luer & Dalstroem 2000 watercolor/drawing fide; Icones Orchidacearum Peruviarum Plate 682 Bennett & Christenson 2001 drawing fide; Masdevallia's in Kleur Vol 1 P M Oversteegen, Eisses & A P Sijm 2001 photo fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum XXII Part 3 Luer 2001 drawing fide; Las Orquideas del Peru Izerskyy & Bezverhov 2011 photo fide; Orchids Masdevallia with its segregates including Dracula Zelenko 2014 photo fide;
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