Masdevallia manoloi Luer & M. Arias 1998 SUBGENUS Masdevallia SECTION Masdevallia SUBSECTION Masdevallia
Photos by © Eric Hunt
Photo by Alfonso Doucette Copyright © 2009, and His Flicker website
TYPE Drawing by Carl Luer
Common Name or Meaning Manolo's Masdevallia [Manolo Arias Peruvian Orchid Nurseryman current]
Flower Size 2" wide 4.8" long [5 cm wide - 12 cm long]
Found in Peru at elevations around 2500 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cold growing epiphyte with stout, erect, blackish ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 to 3 loose, tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, long-petiolate, elliptical, obtuse leaf that is cuneate below into the blackish petiole and blooms on a slender, erect to suberect, 4 3/4" [12 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence arising from near the middle of the ramicaul and having a bract near the base and a tubular floral bract that blooms in the fall and winter
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XVI Systematics of Pleurothallis subgenera Crocodeilanthe, Rhynchopera and Talpinaria Luer 1998 drawing fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum XXII Systematics of Masdevallia Part 3 Luer 2001 drawing fide; Masdevallia's in Kleur Vol 1 P M Oversteegen, Eisses & A P Sijm 2001 photo fide; A Treasure of Masdevallia Vol 26 Luer & Dalstroem 2001 watercolor fide; Australian Orchid Review Vol 69 No 4 2004 photo; Orchid Species of Peru Zelenko Bermudez 2009 photo 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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