Photo by © Mike Buckingham

TYPE Drawing

TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer and Stig Dalstrom

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Common Name The Norris' Masdevallia [Mr & Mrs George Norris of Texas current]

Flower Size 1.2" [3 cm] wide

Found in Peru without locational data as a small sized, presumably epiphytic orchid with stout, erect ramicauls enveloped by a loose tubular sheath and 2 to 3 others below carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptical, subacute, cuneate below intothe petiolate base leaf that blooms in the late summer and early fall on an erect, peduncle 4.4" [11 cm] long, provided with a loose bract below the middle, single flowered inflorescence with a tubular, shorter than the ovary floral bract.

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Selbyana 27(1): 15-24. 2006 Six New Masdevallia Species [Orchidaceae] From Peru Luer & Dalstrom 2006 drawing fide;

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