Masdevallia mallii Luer 2000
SUBGENUS Polyanthae SUBSECTION Successiviflorae Luer 2000
TYPE Photo by Rao/TYPE/Drawing by © Carl Luer and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
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Common Name Malli's Masdevallia [Malli Rao American Orchid Enthusaist]
Flower Size 1.2" [3 cm]
Found in Morona-Santiago province of Ecuador at elevations around 1100 to 1500 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cool growing epiphyte with erect, stout ramicuals enveloped by fugaceous, tubular sheaths at the base and carrying a single, apical, erect, thickly coriaceous, ellitpical, subacute to obtuse, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the later summer on a stout congested, 6" [15 cm] long including the 4.8" [12 cm] long peduncle, successively single flowered inflorescence with a tubular bract at the base and arising from the base of the ramicaul with thin, imbricating floral bracts.
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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXI Masdevallia Part 2 Luer 2000 drawing fide;
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