Masdevallia lynniana Luer 2004 SUBGENUS Pygmaeia SECTION Amaluzae SUBSECTION Amaluzae Luer 1986
Photo by © Lourens Grobler
TYPE Drawing by Carl Luer
Common Name Lynn's Masdevallia [American Orchid Enthusiast current]
Flower Size .8" [2 cm]
Found in Ecuador as a mini-miniature sized epiphyte without locational data with erect, slender ramcauls enveloped by 2 tin, tubular sheaths and carrying a singel, apical, erect, thinly coriaceous, narrowly elliptical, acute, narrowing below into the elongate, petiolate bsae leaf that blooms in the fall on a slender, more or less horizontal, to3.1" [8 cm] long, successively few flowered inflorescence arising from low on the ramicaul witha bract near the middle and another near the base and has a thin, tubular floral bract.
Synonyms Luzama lynniana (Luer) Luer 2006
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVI Luer 2004 drawing fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVIII Luer 2006 as Luzama lynniana; A Treasure of Masdevallia Vol 28 Luer & Dalstroem 2006 watercolor fide; Orchidaceae Masdevallia and Affiliates Dodson & Luer 2009 as Luzama lynniana drawing fide; Orchids Masdevallia with its segregates including Dracula Zelenko 2014 photo fide;
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