Masdevallia newmaniana Luer & Teague 1998 SUBGENUS Masdevallia SECTION Durae [Luer] Luer 2000
Photo courtesy of Eric Hunt, plant grown by, and named for Dan Newman of Hanging Gardens
TYPE Drawing by Carl Luer
Common Name Newman's Masdevallis [Original Cultivator of Species Current]
Flower Size 3/4" [2 cm]
Found in Ecuador at lower elevations as a miniature sized, hot to warm growing, presumably epiphytic orchid found with erect, stout ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 to 3 loose, tubular sheaths carrying a single, apical, coriaceous, erect, elliptical, subacute, that gradually narrows below into the petiole which blooms in the fall on a terete, ascending, 10 to 18" [27 to 40 cm] long, successively few flowered inflorescence arising from the base of the ramicaul with 2 to 3 close bracts below the middle and a tubular floral bract holding the flowers well above leaf height.
Synonyms Regalia newmaniana (Luer & Teague) Luer 2006
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XVII Systematics of Pleurothallis Section Abortivae, Truncatae, Subsection Acroniae, Subgenera Dracontia and Uncifera Luer 1998 drawing ; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXI Luer 2000 drawing fide; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 3 Dodson 2002 drawing fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVIII Luer 2006 as Regalia newmaniana; Orchidaceae Masdevallia and Affiliates Dodson & Luer 2009 as Regalia goliath photo/drawing fide; Orchids Masdevallia with its segregates including Dracula Zelenko 2014 photo fide;
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